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Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan

At: The Portobello Bookshop

On:21st January 2021, 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan at The Portobello Bookshop

This event was hosted on Thursday 21st January.

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We’re thrilled to be hosting this event in celebration of Jenni Fagan’s eagerly anticipated new novel Luckenbooth: a bold, haunting and dazzlingly unique novel about the stories and secrets we leave behind, and the places that hold them long after we are gone.

The devil’s daughter rows to the shores of Leith in a coffin. The year is 1910 and she has been sent to a tenement building in Edinburgh 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, No. 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 and an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building’s longest kept secret to be heard.

This is an online event. Jenni will be in conversation with Kaite Welsh via Crowdcast, and there will be a chance to ask questions during the event. The ticket price includes a signed and dedicated first edition of Luckenbooth. Jenni will be signing the books in advance of the event; they will be posted out in the next few days.

Dedicated copies are no longer available this close to the event but booking a ticket now will still include a signed edition of Luckenbooth, hand-wrapped and sent out as soon as possible.

The venue

The Portobello Bookshop

46 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH15 1DA

Telephone: 0131 629 6756

Website: www.theportobellobookshop.com


Wheelchair Access

We have a ramp at the front of the shop which has a ratio of 1:10 and loading capacity of 300kg, and so should be able to be used by most wheelchair users or those with mobility vehicles. The front doors are fully automated. Our shop interior is designed to allow access throughout for wheelchair users and prams, though please note there is only 700mm wide clearance to access the staff toilet.

Sound

We use a PA system to enhance the audio at our live events. We also have a hearing loop system installed, if you’d like to use our loop system during an event please let us know and we’ll make sure we have it setup and connected to the live audio feed during the event. If you wish to attend an event and require BSL interpretation, please give us a few weeks notice and we’ll do our best to arrange an interpreter.