‘Kate Foster can pluck a dark story from the depths of history and bring it to vivid life before your eyes . . . <\/b>A strong contender for my book of the year’ – Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Inspired by an infamous real-life case, The Mourning Necklace <\/i>is the unforgettable new feminist historical novel from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of The Maiden<\/i>, Kate Foster.<\/b><\/p>\n
They said I would swing for the crime, and I did . . .<\/i><\/p>\n
1724<\/b>. 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.<\/p>\n
But as her family pray her soul rests in peace, a figure appears at the door.<\/p>\n
It is Maggie. She is alive.<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
‘Kate excels at bringing the forgotten women of history back to life and giving them the attention they deserve’ – Claire Evans, author of The Fourteenth Letter<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Captivating . . . Scratch beneath the surface of a Kate Foster novel and all of life is there in the most elegant prose’ – Marion Todd, author of the bestselling DI Clare Mackay series<\/p>\n
‘Brilliant . . . [Kate Foster is] the new Hilary Mantel’ – Tina Baker, author of What We Did In The Storm<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sentenced to hang for a terrible crime, Maggie Dickson somehow survives her own execution. Now she must race to prove her innocence before the hangman catches up with her . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[216],"product_tag":[29774,69,26898],"class_list":["post-108585","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-fiction-hardback","product_tag-c-1720-to-c-1729","product_tag-historical-fiction","product_tag-narrative-theme-social-issues","pa_book_author-foster-kate","pa_cover-hardback","pa_dewey-823-92-edition23","pa_edition-hardback-original","pa_imprint-mantle","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8306","pa_publisher-mantle","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n