The Heart of Mid-Lothian

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This novel, regarded as one of Scotts finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people have been infuriated by the actions of John Porteous, Captain of the Guard; when his life is saved by the distant monarch they ignore the Queen and resolve to take their own revenge. Closely connected with these events is the story of the novels heroine, Jeanie Deans, a peasant girl of remarkable religious faith. Like the people of Edinburgh she refuses to accept a legal decision, in this case against her sister Effie, condemned under a harsh law of child-murder. The novel follows Jeanies prodigious determination to save her sisters life. At the centre of both narratives is Edinburghs forbidding prison, the Tolbooth, known by all as the Heart of Midlothian. (Amazon)

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