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Message from the Skies

See Edinburgh in a brand new light this New Year! Take a literary journey through the city, and read a new story, New Year's Resurrection, by leading Scottish writer Val McDermid told through projections onto Edinburgh’s buildings and landmarks.

More information on this production is available at www.edinburghshogmanay.com.

The critical consensus

Message From The Skies remains a rich and brilliant introduction to the city and to its literary heritage, as well as to a lost tradition of female writing long overdue for recognition.

***(*)(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 02/01/2017e

At its best, it is like peering, not just at the grand facades of the buildings, but into the two-faced psyche of a nation’s literary history and the self-image it promotes. If Edinburgh feels like a ghost down at this time of year, for three weeks, at least, all life is here.

****(*)Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 03/01/2018


Features about Message from the Skies

Val McDermid and Philip Howard--Message from the Skies

Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 28/12/2017

Val McDermid's innovative new work to honour writing duo

Martyn McLaughlin, The Scotsman, 01/01/2018

Crime novelist Val McDermid's story projected on to landmarks

Angus Howarth, The Scotsman, 03/01/2018

Message from the Skies--take a daunder in the city!

Phyllis Stephen, The Edinburgh Reporter, 04/01/2018

Where and when?

Multiple venues. Check the website for event and venue details., from Monday January 1, 2018, until Thursday January 25, 2018.

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