Luckenbooth
Author: Fagan, Jenni
ISBN: 9781643138879
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RM201.11
Publisher,Pegasus Books
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight, 498.95 g
No. of Pages, 338
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 fiancâee. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents--a curse that willlast 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--