Clues have been hidden all over the house for Cat to find, like El used to do when they were kids. When El goes missing in her sailing boat, Cat has to return to Scotland, and she discovers that El-or she believes El-has set her on a treasure hunt. Cat lives in Los Angeles, while El lives, with her husband, Ross, at 36 Westeryk Road: the old and mysterious house in Edinburgh where she and Cat grew up. Mirrorland is about estranged Mirror Twins, Cat and El. It has always loomed large in both my memory and my imagination, and I always knew that my first published novel would inevitably be set there too. I’ve been writing stories since I was that wee girl, and so many of them have been set in some version of my grandparents’ house. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, my sister and I spent almost every holiday under its perpetually leaking roof-the big, creepy, old house couldn’t have been any more different from our suburban 60s-built bungalow in small-town Central Scotland. My grandparents lived in a 200-year-old Georgian house in Leith, the northern port district of Edinburgh, Scotland. Or a moment of catastrophe, preserved like a body trapped under pumice and ash.
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