The Gallows Curse
Karen Maitland
  • Published: 4 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141047447
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $35.00

The Gallows Curse

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30 May 2011
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4 May 2012
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'A tour de force, dark and woven with the supernatural' Daily Mail

The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their cradles and corpses in unconsecrated ground. Across a fear-ravaged England, the people are dying in sin.

In the village of Gastmere, this has shocking consequences for servant girl Elena. Unwittingly drawn into a macabre scheme to absolve dying Lord Gerard of his crimes, death and betrayal haunt her dreams like a curse.

And when Elena is threatened with hanging for a murder she did not commit, it is certain that unnatural conspiracy lies behind these dark deeds. But where can she turn? For in every face lies wickedness and in every shadow lurks treachery . . .
  • Published: 4 May 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141047447
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 592
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

Karen Maitland

Karen Maitland lives in Lincolnshire and is the author of The White Room, which won an Author's Club Best First Novel Award. Her latest novel Company of Liars is published by Penguin (2008).

Also by Karen Maitland

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Praise for The Gallows Curse

A ripping tale set in the year of 1210. Full of colour and detail

Daily Telegraph

Maitland's richest yet: a breathless romp through an England rendered spiritually desolate. Bubbles over with the exploits of desperate priests, scheming herbalists, torturous conspirators, a dwarf-sized madam and a plot of treason against the King

Metro

Bawdy and brutal

Simon Mayo

A gem of a story. Meticulously researched and told with blood-curdling relish, this is a tale that will keep you awake at night

News of the World

A richly evocative page-turner which brings to life a lost and terrible period of British history, with a disturbing final twist worthy of a master of the spine-tingler, such as Henry James

Daily Express

Karen Maitland neatly catches the spirit of primitive superstition

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