Scotland 1863. In an attempt to escape her notsoinnocent past in Glasgowthe wideeyed Irish girl Bessy Buckley takes a job as a maid to the beautifulArabella in ... » 

Scotland 1863. In an attempt to escape her notsoinnocent past in Glasgowthe wideeyed Irish girl Bessy Buckley takes a job as a maid to the beautifulArabella in a big house outside Edinburgh. Bessy is intrigued by her newemployer but puzzled by her increasingly strange requests and her insistencethat Bessy keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts. Arabella has a fewsecrets of her own including her near obssessive affection for Nora a formermaid who died in mysterious circumstances. Then a childish prank has drasticconsquences which throw into jeopardy all that Bessy has come to hold dear.Caught up in a tangle of madness ghosts sex and lies she is determined toremain devoted to Arabella. But who is really responsible for what happened toher predecessor Nora? «