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Luckenbooth / Jenni Fagan.

by Fagan, Jenni.

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Pegasus Books, 2022.

Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.

Tenement houses -- Fiction.

Secrecy -- Fiction.

Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction.

9781643138879 (hc.)

1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.

338 p. ; 24 cm.

"There are stories tucked away on every floor of 10 Luckenbooth Close. 1910, 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 fiancee. 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. Over 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 a suppressed spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building's longest kept secret to be heard"--Dust jacket flap.

Gothic fiction.

Magic realism (Literature)

Historical fiction.

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