Harris's best trick in this, her second novel, is probably the creation of her quite unlikeable but utterly compelling central character, Harriet Baxter. Part repressed spinster, part independent ...

Set in Victorian Scotland, 35-year-old spinster Harriet Baxter is an independent Englishwoman who traveled from foggy London to the bright lights of Glasgow, in order to enjoy her newly earned ...

Elinor Beth (Baxter) Falcon was born on June 10, 1931, in Fairview to Ralph and Harriet (Glabb) Baxter. She had two brothers, Donald and Larry Baxter and two sisters, Elaine Adams and Pamela Harada.

Harris’s haunting second novel finds Harriet Baxter, a single 30-something adrift after the death of her aunt, visiting the famous Glasgow International Exhibition in 1888. There she meets the ...