Luckenbooth
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan is a novel published by Pegasus Books on January 4, 2022, featuring 352 pages in English. Set in 1910 Edinburgh, the story follows Jessie MacRae, who is sent to a tenement building to bear a child for a wealthy couple. The events that unfold lead to a curse affecting the building and its residents, creating a haunting narrative that explores the secrets embedded within its walls.
Readers will discover a tapestry of lives intertwined with the building’s troubled history over nine decades. The narrative includes a diverse cast of characters, such as an infamous madam, a spy, and a psychic, each grappling with the repercussions of the curse. The novel delves into themes of supernatural elements and suspense, as the spirit world becomes increasingly agitated, seeking to reveal the long-hidden truths of 10 Luckenbooth Close.
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A 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)
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 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.
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 an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building’s longest kept secret to be heard.
Luckenbooth 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.
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