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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 fiance. 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.
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I am a Scottish novelist and poet. My debut novel The Panopticon is published in the UK, US and Europe. I have just completed the first draft of my second novel The Sunlight Pilgrims. My poetry collections are Urchin Belle and The Dead Queen of Bohemia. My work has been nominated and shortlisted for various prizes including The Pushcart & The James Tait Black Prize. In 2013 I was included on the once a decade Best of Young British Novelists under 40 by Granta magazine. I am currently Writer In Residence at Edinburgh University and I live in a coastal village with my toddler.
