{"product_id":"9781473696624-the-ninth-child","title":"The Ninth Child","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe new novel from the author of The Sealwoman's Gift\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding novel of a young doctor's wife struggling to make her childless life meaningful, unaware that the sinister Robert Kirke is watching her every move when she becomes pregnant again. From the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhere Memories Go\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sealwoman's Gift.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'EXTRAORDINARILY VIVID' Michelle Gallen, author of \u003ci\u003eBig Girl Small Town\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLoch Katrine waterworks, 1856. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo place for a lady.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliant tour-de-fource' Alistair Moffat\u003cbr\u003e'An epic journey' \u003ci\u003eZoe Ball Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56438487351670,"sku":"9781473696624","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27264292.jpg?v=1760364316","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781473696624-the-ninth-child","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}