For the first time in Russian - the brilliant debut of a British writer and screenwriter, a graduate of the famous Malcolm Bradbury literary seminar, through which such stars of modern prose as Booker Prize winners Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan passed. The narrator of "Observations" Bessie Buckley, with her lively voice and disregard for conventions (especially the rules of punctuation), has already entered the golden fund of British classics, standing next to the heroines of Charles Dickens and the Bronte sisters. Unexpectedly finding herself a servant at the Hivers Castle estate, Bessie does not immediately get used to her new role. Yes, she doesn’t know how to milk cows or clean carpets, but she can at least read and write, which for some reason is much more important for her new owner, Mrs. Arabella James. But even more mysterious is the tragic fate of one of Bessie’s predecessors, and in order to pierce the veil of secrecy, Bessie is ready to carry out any orders of her mistress...