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The Ninth Child - The new novel from the author of The Sealwoman's Gift (Paperback)
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'WONDERFUL. ONE NEVER MESSES WITH THE FAERIES' Melanie Reid, The
Times 'AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus
'EXTRAORDINARILY VIVD' Michelle Gallen, author of Big Girl Small
Town A spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden
history, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally Magnusson.
Loch Katrine waterworks, 1856. A Highland wilderness fast becoming
an industrial wasteland. No place for a lady. Isabel Aird is aghast
when her husband is appointed doctor to an extraordinary waterworks
being built miles from the city. But Isabel, denied the motherhood
role that is expected of her by a succession of miscarriages, finds
unexpected consolations in a place where she can feel the presence
of her unborn children and begin to work out what her life in
Victorian society is for. The hills echo with the gunpowder blasts
of hundreds of navvies tunnelling day and night to bring clean
water to diseased Glasgow thirty miles away - digging so deep that
there are those who worry they are disturbing the land of faery
itself. Here, just inside the Highland line, the membrane between
the modern world and the ancient unseen places is very thin. With
new life quickening within her again, Isabel can only wait. But a
darker presence has also emerged from the gunpowder smoke. And he
is waiting too. Inspired by the mysterious death of the
seventeenth-century minister Robert Kirke and set in a pivotal era
two centuries later when engineering innovation flourished but
women did not, The Ninth Child blends folklore with historical
realism in a spellbinding narrative. *PRAISE FOR THE SEALWOMAN'S
GIFT* 'I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure' Sarah Perry 'An
extraordinarily immersive read' Guardian 'Richly imagined and
energetically told' Sunday Times 'An epic journey' Zoe Ball Book
Club
General
Imprint: |
Two Roads Pub
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2020 |
First published: |
2020 |
Authors: |
Sally Magnusson
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Dimensions: |
232 x 154 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4736-9661-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
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LSN: |
1-4736-9661-5 |
Barcode: |
9781473696617 |
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