This is very different, quite difficult and very good.
A book about a boarding house in Portabello, Edinburgh, really throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
An old woman has died in the house and the clearance is done mainly by Essie Pound, who is a bit puzzled by its contents. It transpires towards the end that the house has been used throughout the last 100 or so years as a laying in house for pregnant women, too ashamed to acknowledge their pregnancy and that the babies are drowned like kittens by the various landladies, and their bones stored in the attic. There are a lot of other plot strands (Emily Noble is Essie’s sister, a trainee detective, who gets involved).
Probably worth a re-read, as so different.
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