The Mourning NecklaceInspired by an infamous real life case, The Mourning Necklace is the unforgettable original feminist historical novel from the Womens Prize longlisted author of The Maiden, Kate Foster. They said I would swing for the crime and I did I wear the rope mark like a mourning necklace. 1724. 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