Luckenbooth, Jenni Fagan
Luckenbooth, Jenni Fagan
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Luckenbooth

Author: Jenni Fagan

Narrator: Fiona McNeill, David McCallion, Cathleen McCarron, Jeff Harding

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/22/2022


Synopsis

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 tale about the stories and secrets we leave behind—and the places that hold them long after we are gone.

About Jenni Fagan

Jenni Fagan is an award-winning novelist, poet, screenwriter, and playwright. She is the author of The Panopticon and The Sunlight Pilgrims, as well as a collection of poetry, The Dead Queen of Bohemia. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. She lives in Edinburgh.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on June 12, 2022

I was really looking forward to reading this book. The promise of dark magical realism had me licking my lips and rubbing my knees. Was Jenni Fagan a Scottish version of Jess Kidd? I wondered. With hopes heightened, loins girded and gherkins pickled, I dived right in… Alas, it took me a while to adjus......more

Goodreads review by Ellie on February 24, 2021

started off well then became unbearably preachy and dull. i agreed with all of fagin's views but there's only so many times you can be told 'feminism is good' 'poverty is bad' etc. (and i mean 'etc.'- she nods at every popular social issue you can imagine without properly addressing any of them, wit......more

Goodreads review by Ron on December 21, 2021

A few weeks ago, I noticed water pooling in our basement. Ever the optimist, I pretended it was just rain leaking in, but then I saw toilet paper floating by. It could have been worse. Real estate, after all, is the foundation of gothic horror. From the Castle of Otranto to the House of Usher to thos......more

Goodreads review by Neale on November 18, 2020

From the opening page, a darkness hangs over the novel like a pall over a coffin, which is ironic because the protagonist is rowing her way to Luckenbooth Close, Edinburgh, in her coffin. Yes, I did say her coffin. We learn some important information while she rows. She refers to herself as the devi......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 14, 2021

Edinburgh seduces with her ancient buildings. She pours alcohol or food down the throats of anyone passing, dangles her trinkets, leaves pockets bare. She’s a pickpocket. The best kind of thief, one you think of–most fondly. When two separate newspapers hail as novel as likely to be the weirdest of 2......more