The Mourning Necklace
29 May 2025
Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
'Kate Foster is an exceptional writer and masterful storyteller' – Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal
Inspired by the infamous real-life case of Maggie Dickson, The Mourning Necklace is an unforgettable historical novel from Women's Prize-longlisted author, Kate Foster.
They said I would swing for the crime and I did . . . Surely, they can't hang me twice?
1724. In a...
Details
29 May 2025
750 minutes
9781035052097
Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
The Maiden is a masterpiece. A thrilling historical murder tale but so much more. Vivid, evocative and full of humanityJanice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal, on The Maiden
Riveting . . . The tension persists until the last pageThe Times on The Maiden
Kate Foster expands the slender facts of the case into something exceptional - a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant - Daily Mail on The Maiden
Threat hangs over every page like the awaiting guillotine, but the women in this book gleam sharper. Witty, gritty and full of heart, their voices rise through the brutality and hardship of seventeenth-century Edinburgh, battling to be heardCari Thomas, bestselling author of Threadneedle