{"product_id":"the-ninth-child-paperback-2","title":"The Ninth Child - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSally Magnusson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'WONDERFUL. ONE NEVER MESSES WITH THE FAERIES' Melanie Reid, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH' Sarah Haywood, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cactus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e 'A BRILLIANT TOUR-DE-FORCE -RIVETING' Alistair Moffatt, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Ways \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'EXTRAORDINARILY VIVID' Michelle Gallen, author of \u003ci\u003eBig Girl Small Town\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the \u003c\/i\u003eSunday Times\u003ci\u003e bestselling author Sally Magnusson.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLoch Katrine waterworks, 1856. \u003cb\u003eA Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo place for a lady.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ninth Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eblends folklore with historical realism in a spellbinding narrative\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e*PRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE SEALWOMAN'S GIFT\u003c\/i\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure' SARAH PERRY\u003cbr\u003e'An extraordinarily immersive read' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Richly imagined and energetically told' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An epic journey' \u003ci\u003eZoe Ball Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBroadcaster and journalist \u003cb\u003eSally Magnusson\u003c\/b\u003e has written 10 books, most famously, her \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eWhere Memories Go\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) about her mother's dementia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHalf-Icelandic, half Scottish, Sally has inherited a rich storytelling tradition. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sealwoman's Gift\u003c\/i\u003e, was a Radio 2 Book Club and Zoe Ball Book Club selection, and was shortlisted for several prizes, including the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Fiction Book of the Year, the Paul Torday Memorial Prize, the McKitterick Prize, the Waverton Good Read Award and the HWA Debut Fiction Crown. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Ninth Child\u003c\/i\u003e, her second novel, publishes in spring 2020.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252629651705,"sku":"9781473696624","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/S2lkVDdxbUd2eWVYTkVsTlk3cFBGQT09.webp?v=1768689043","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-ninth-child-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}