The Cursed Wife

Written by Pamela Hartshorne

Narrated by Rachel Atkins

Curses cannot be silenced

Mary lives a contented life as wife to a wealthy merchant in Elizabethan London. But there's a part of her past she can't forget....

As a small girl she was cursed for causing the death of a vagrant child, a curse that predicts that she will hang.

Sometimes the happiest households are not what they seem, and Mary's carefully curated world begins to falter. Mary's whole life is based on a lie. Is she the woman her husband believes her to be?

One rainy day she ventures to London's Cheapside, where her past catches up with her.... Suddenly the lies and deception she has so fought to hide begin to claw to the surface.

The Cursed Wife is an enthralling psychological thriller set in Elizabethan London, from Pamela Hartshorne, author of The Edge of Dark.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Release date: Mar 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781509859337

Pamela Hartshorne

After an earlier career spent working and travelling around the world, including stints as cook on an outback cattle station, interpreter on expedition in Cameroon and English teacher in Jakarta, Pamela stumbled into writing as a way of funding a PhD in Medieval Studies. Settling at last in York, for several years she combined academic research with a successful career as a romance writer. Her thesis on the streets of later medieval and early modern York was finally completed in 2004 and she continues to work (very slowly) on a scholarly edition of the wardmote court records that formed the basis of her research. The Memory of Midnight is her second novel based on her study of Elizabethan York and written under her real name.