'WONDERFUL. ONE NEVER MESSES WITH THE FAERIES' Melanie Reid, The
Times 'AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus 'A
BRILLIANT TOUR-DE-FORCE -RIVETING' Alistair Moffatt, author of The
Hidden Ways 'EXTRAORDINARILY VIVID' 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
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2020 |
First published: |
2020 |
Authors: |
Sally Magnusson
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Dimensions: |
196 x 128 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4736-9662-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4736-9662-3 |
Barcode: |
9781473696624 |
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