{"product_id":"the-ninth-child-by-sally-magnusson-9781473696624","title":"The Ninth Child","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWONDERFUL. ONE NEVER MESSES WITH THE FAERIES.\u003c\/b\u003e Melanie Reid, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eAN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH.\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Haywood, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cactus\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eEXTRAORDINARILY VIVID.\u003c\/b\u003e Michelle Gallen, author of \u003ci\u003eBig Girl Small Town\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLoch Katrine waterworks, 1856. A Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland. No place for a lady.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\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\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\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, \u003ci\u003eThe Ninth Child\u003c\/i\u003e blends folklore with historical realism in a spellbinding narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE SEALWOMAN'S GIFT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure.' Sarah Perry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An extraordinarily immersive read.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Richly imagined and energetically told.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A brilliant tour-de-force.' Alistair Moffat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An epic journey.' \u003ci\u003eZoe Ball Book Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461594300652,"sku":"9781473696624","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781473696624-the-ninth-child.jpg?v=1774972726","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-ninth-child-by-sally-magnusson-9781473696624","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}