Luckenbooth: 'A weird and wonderful gothic confection' Guardian - Softcover

Fagan, Dr Jenni

 
9780099592198: Luckenbooth: 'A weird and wonderful gothic confection' Guardian
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099592193 ISBN 13: 9780099592198
Verlag: Windmill Books, 2021

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***Jenni Fagan's new novel The Delusions is available now***

A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST AND WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION

'One of the most stunning literary experiences I've had in years'
IRVINE WELSH

'[A] weird and wonderful gothic confection'
GUARDIAN

'An audacious statement and a terrific read'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

'Dazzlingly ambitious'
DOUGLAS STUART

'Gloriously transgressive'
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.

'She writes unlike any other author of her generation'
THE SCOTSMAN

'Bracingly good ... defies any sort of neat description'
FINANCIAL TIMES

'Poetic, high-octane, punchy'
SUNDAY TIMES

'Seedy, sexy and strange'
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'Absolutely outstanding'
KIRSTIN INNES

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jenni Fagan was born in Scotland. Jenni was selected as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists after the publication of her debut novel, The Panopticon, which was shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and the James Tait Black Prize. The Sunlight Pilgrims, her second novel, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Encore Award and the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award and saw her win Scottish Author of the Year at the Herald Culture Awards. Luckenbooth was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021. Jenni Fagan is a Doctor of Philosophy, she lives in Edinburgh with her son.

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The devil's daughter rows to the shores of Leith in a coffin. The year is 1910 and she has been sent to a tenement building in Edinburgh 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, No. 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 and 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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Verlag
Windmill Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099592193
ISBN 13 
9780099592198
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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