ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK
PRIZE FOR FICTION THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR THE PANOPTICON and THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2021
'One of the most stunning literary experiences I've had in years' Irvine Welsh 'Dazzlingly
ambitious' Douglas Stuart author of Shuggie Bain 'A gloriously transgressive novel' Ian Rankin
1910 Edinburgh. Jessie the devil's daughter arrives on the doorstep of an imposing tenement
building and knocks on a freshly painted wooden door. She has been sent by her father to bear a
child for a wealthy couple but when things go wrong she places a curse on the building and
all who live there - and it lasts a century. Caught in the crossfire are the residents of 10
Luckenbooth Close and they all have their own stories to tell. While the world outside is
changing inside the curse creeps up all nine floors and through each door. Soon the
building's longest kept secret - the truth of what happened to Jessie - will finally be heard.
