The Hanging of Hettie Gale

Two hundred and forty years separate two women, and yet the bond that ties them is what will ultimately set them both free. In 1776, on the Moor in a remote corner of England, Hettie Gale is hanged for drowning her own child. Fast forward to now, and Alice McKenna is barely living her life in dull suburbia, fearful of a lonely, pointless future. Until the day she receives a call to say that her cousin has gone missing on The Moor. Travelling to the place of her childhood holidays, Alice begins to question her growing obsession with Hettie's story. Has Hettie been trying to communicate with her? And is her cousin's disappearance somehow connected to all the other people who have gone missing over the years? Alice is more alive on The Moor than she has ever been, but it is death that fascinates her, and leads her to uncover secrets that have lain hidden for centuries. With the help of journals written by the women of 'the big house', Alice begins to piece together what really happened to Hettie. But will she be in time to save her cousin?

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