01770cam a2200337 i 4500 545862508 TxGeo 20220106120000.0 210706s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781643138879 hbk. 1643138871 hbk. (OCoLC)1259049101 TxGeo rda Fagan, Jenni. Luckenbooth / Jenni Fagan. First Pegasus Books cloth edition. New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2022. 338 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The devil's daughter rows to Edinburgh in a coffin, to work as a maid for the minister of Culture, a man who lives a dual life. But the real reason she's there is to bear him and his barren wife a child, the consequences of which curse the tenement building that is their home for a hundred years. As we travel through the nine floors of the building and the next eight decades, the resident's lives entwine over the ages in unpredictable ways. Along the way we encounter the city's most infamous Madam, a seance, a civil rights lawyer, a bone mermaid, a famous Beat poet, a notorius Edinburgh gang, a spy, the literati, artis, thinkers, strippers, the spirit world, until a cosmic agent finally exposes the true horror of the building's longest kept secret." -- provided by publisher. 20220114. Blessing and cursing Fiction. Tenement houses Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Gothic fiction. Magic realist fiction. Historical fiction. QS5