{"product_id":"luckenbooth-hardcover","title":"Luckenbooth - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJenni Fagan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold, haunting, and startlingly unique novel about the secrets we leave behind and the places that hold them long after we are gone, a \"quintessential novel of Edinburgh at its darkest.\" (Irvine Welsh)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are stories tucked away on every floor of 10 Luckenbooth Close. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1910, Edinburgh. Jessie MacRae has been sent to a tenement building by her recently deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancée. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents--a curse that will last for the rest of the century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver nine decades, 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of the residents whose lives are plagued by the building's troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors as an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building's longest kept secret to be heard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLuckenbooth\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold, haunting, and dazzlingly unique novel about the stories and secrets we leave behind--and the places that hold them long after we are gone.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJenni Fagan\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning novelist, poet, screenwriter, and playwright. She is the author of two prior novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Panopticon and The Sunlight Pilgrims, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as a collection of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Queen of Bohemia\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. She lives in Edinburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42159690186887,"sku":"9781643138879","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7ad92ff82f2de9db1d2d51826c38c4de.webp?v=1733268487","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/luckenbooth-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}