Luckenbooth
By Dr Jenni Fagan
Harry Hartog's review
Don't judge this book by its cover, it's not a pretty, but this has been my favourite reed for a few years in a row. These stories are full of violent, haunting, romantic, brave, mystical imagery & characters. I fell in love with EVERY character (except one - Mr Ludlam can rot in hell). This's the story of 10 Luckenbooth Close, Edinburgh. It's a cursed tenement filled to the brim with love, pain, philosophy, longing & retribution. An historical fiction flowing throughout the 1900’s telling the stories of each of the flats inhabitants all haunted in their own way and also by the same ghosts. Have and will read again. - Tricia, Harry Hartog Burnside
Description
The hugely-anticipated third novel - ambitious, ferocious and gripping - from the prize-winning author of The Panopticon.
ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION, THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR THE PANOPTICON and THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2021
'One of the most stunning literary experiences I've had in years' Irvine Welsh
'Dazzlingly ambitious' Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
'A gloriously transgressive novel' Ian Rankin
1910, Edinburgh. Jessie, the devil's daughter, arrives on the doorstep of an imposing tenement building and knocks on a freshly painted wooden door. She has been sent by her father to bear a child for a wealthy couple, but, when things go wrong, she places a curse on the building and all who live there - and it lasts a century.
Caught in the crossfire are the residents of 10 Luckenbooth Close, and they all have their own stories to tell. While the world outside is changing, inside, the curse creeps up all nine floors and through each door. Soon, the building's longest kept secret - the truth of what happened to Jessie - will finally be heard.
- ISBN:
- 9780099592198
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 352
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Cornerstone
- Imprint:
- Windmill Books
- Weight:
- 284 g