{"product_id":"9781035052073","title":"The Mourning Necklace","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Foster, Kate | Historical fiction \u003cbr\u003ePublished 05\/02\/2026 by PAN MACMILLAN                   (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom \u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 130 x 21mm | 214g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Moving and masterful . . . transports you to 18th-century Scotland and says as much about modern life as it does about those harrowing times’ – Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealInspired by an infamous real-life case, The Mourning Necklace is the unforgettable original feminist historical novel from the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of The Maiden, Kate Foster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey said I would swing for the crime and I did . . . I wear the rope-mark like a mourning necklace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1724. In a tavern just outside Edinburgh, the family of Maggie Dickson – hanged for the murder of her newborn child – drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone. Shame haunts them; passers-by avert their eyes from her cheap coffin on its rickety cart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as her family pray her soul rests in peace, a figure appears at the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is Maggie. She is alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruised and dazed, Maggie has little time for her family’s questions. All that matters to her is answering one: will they hang her twice?Praise for Kate Foster:'Riveting . . . The tension persists until the last page' - The Times'Tense, thrilling . . . with a decidedly feminist slant' - Daily Mail‘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‘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‘Brilliant . . . the new Hilary Mantel’ – Tina Baker, author of What We Did In The Storm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE CLEEVE BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56648614052215,"sku":"9781035052073","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/0729\/3737\/files\/9781035052073.jpg?v=1770032520","url":"https:\/\/thecleevebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781035052073","provider":"The Cleeve Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}