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Chapters (37)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Part I
  6. Jessie MacRae (21) the arrival
  7. Flora (33) the drag ball
  8. Levi (31) the bone library
  9. Jessie MacRae (21) the second day
  10. Flora (33) After – everyone arrives
  11. Levi (32) the four horsemen of the apocalypse
  12. Jessie MacRae (24) the conclusion
  13. Flora (33) It’s not my cage
  14. Levi (32) fear fir the mermaid
  15. Part II
  16. Ivy Proudfoot (17) the night witches
  17. Agnes Campbell (63) the fraudulent mediums act
  18. William Burroughs (49) the basement
  19. Ivy Proudfoot (17) cupid’s corner
  20. Agnes Campbell (63) the sisters
  21. William Burroughs (49) take me to your word maker so I can plead for my pitiful life
  22. Ivy Proudfoot (17) the palais
  23. Agnes Campbell (63) the devil’s daughter, her lover and the child
  24. William Burroughs (49) this building is a psychic vampire
  25. Part III
  26. Queen Bee (21) the red room
  27. Ivor (37) deathwatch beetles
  28. Dot (27) the death of all the secrets
  29. Queen Bee (21) triads vs rebels
  30. Ivor (37) after all these years
  31. Dot (27) the long walk home
  32. Queen Bee (21) Santa baby, please put a sable under the tree, for me
  33. Ivor (37) ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
  34. Dot (27) i’m going to leave this city one last time
  35. Epilogue
  36. About the Author
  37. Also by Jenni Fagan

If it ever happens I advise you do the same too.

One of the women on reception at the Dick Vet talks to me a lot.

She is a member of a coven.

I like her.

She says all across Britain covens are gathering to spell-cast against Hitler, pagans and druids and witches, doing what they can. What is happening right now destroys me. All the news is bad. We are on the eve of destruction, Leo. Chamberlain is intent on making sure the Germans are stopped at all costs! Even the Canadians have gone to war against them! They never go to war against anybody! Why didn’t they learn from the last world war? It’s going to cost the lives of many people. The Spanish Civil War was bad enough. How long until we learn? How long did it take to get the KKK down from 4 million members to nearly 30K? Then the far right just lurch up. Why? Claim some new justification for their hatred. Why? I try not to be political. I do! I don’t want to think about all of this! I try to do other stuff at least half of the time. I need to so I can cope with being stuck here on earth with so many fucking lunatics. I read the DC comics you sent. I’m so jealous that you went to the first World Science Fiction Convention in New York. I will write to you until I have no thoughts left in me, Leo. It could take a while. I am studying bones all the time. Maybe all any of us need to do is become an expert in just one thing? Also, I found out No. 10 Luckenbooth Close is called that because of an old word lucken-buith, it’s what they called the first locked booths for trading, they used to drag carts to sell silver and other things but they’d have to cart them back and forth across the city and I tell you, brother, the hills in this city are no joke, if I wasn’t a God-fearing man I’d say they were designed by a psychopath. Anyway, eventually those local traders asked the council if they could lock their booths and that’s how the word came about. Also – a Luckenbooth is a piece of jewelry, worn either as a brooch or a ring that can be given to a fiancée – it is pretty – two intertwined silver hearts.

Yours,

Levi

1910

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Jessie MacRae (21) the second day