The Mourning Necklace [electronic resource]

Foster, Kate2025

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'Kate Foster is an exceptional writer and masterful storyteller' – Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealInspired by an infamous real-life case, The Mourning Necklace is an unforgettable historical novel from the Women's Prize-longlisted author of The Maiden, Kate Foster.They said I would swing for the crime and I did. I wear the rope-bruise like a necklace.1724. In a tavern just outside Edinburgh, Maggie Dickson’s family drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone. Shame haunts them. Hanged for the murder of her newborn child, passers-by avert their eyes from her cheap coffin on its rickety cart.But as her family pray her soul rests in peace, a figure appears at the door.It is Maggie. She is alive.Bruised and dazed, Maggie has little time for her family’s questions. All that matters to her is answering this one: will they hang her twice?**Praise for Kate Foster:'Exceptional – a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant' – Daily Mail on The Maiden'Riveting . . . the tension persists until the last page’ – The Times on The Maiden'Enthralling, compelling and at times chilling . . . An utterly timely tale' – D. V. Bishop, prize-winning author of Ritual of Fire, on The King's Witches**