The Unquiet Heart

Sarah Gilchrist is trying to make a new life as one of the first female medical students at Edinburgh University. But her reputation has not been helped by her involvement in a recent scandal.
Now her fiance, a man she has no intention of marrying, has been accused of a murder she is sure he didn't commit and she finds herself becoming his ally. Beneath the genteel façade of upper-class Edinburgh lurks blackmail, adultery, poison and madness and Sarah must return to the slums and back alleys as she discovers the dark past about a family where no-one is what they seem, even her own fiancé.
'A nicely constructed historical mystery about the unorthodox sleuthing of a young woman studying to be a doctor at the University of Edinburgh' New York Times
'The mystery is secondary to Welsh's depiction of the plight of intelligent, ambitious women in 19th-century Britain, long before anyone dreamed of #MeToo, when a spotless reputation and a suitable marriage was the end all and be all for a woman, her own wishes and desires be damned. Sarah's plight is an infuriating one indeed, and readers will cheer her every step of the way' Publishers Weekly

KAITE WELSH is an Edinburgh-based journalist and author. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman and she makes frequent appearances on BBC radio and television. Kaite has been shortlisted for both the Scottish New Writers Award and the Moniack Mhor Bridge Award, and most recently she is the author of The Wages of Sin.