Mercy

This is the true life-story of Mercy Newton, arrested in 1848 for a crime that shook Bridgnorth, and the whole of Great Britain. But did she do it? Notorious in its day, the story of Mercy Newton, only the second person in Britain to have stood trial for the same murder twice, the murder of her mother, has since fallen into obscurity because of the working-class background of the protagonist. This novel brings her story back into the spotlight.