{"product_id":"the-ninth-child-sally-magnusson","title":"The Ninth Child - Sally Magnusson","description":"\u003cp\u003eLoch Katrine waterworks, 1856. A Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland. No place for a lady.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsabel 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ninth Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eblends folklore with historical realism in a spellbinding narrative\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55256015208828,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/8930\/2764\/files\/tncsm-01.jpg?v=1747404877","url":"https:\/\/bookbubble.co.uk\/products\/the-ninth-child-sally-magnusson","provider":"Book Bubble\/Old School Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}