Kaite Welsh

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Kaite Welsh is an author, critic and journalist and the former Literature Officer at Creative Scotland. Her work has appeared in various newspapers and magazines from The Times Literary Supplement to Cosmopolitan. Her short fiction, featuring roller derby, Greek myths and ghosts, has been published in several anthologies and she guest lectures on Creative Writing at universities around the UK. She is the author of the Sarah Gilchrist series, and lives in Edinburgh with her wife, cats and a lot of books.

She lives in Edinburgh with her wife, three cats and a lot of books.

Current Publication:

THE UNQUIET HEART - Tinder Press - May 2019

Sarah Gilchrist has no intention of marrying her dull fiancé Miles, the man her family hope will restore her reputation and put an end to her dreams of becoming a doctor, but when he is arrested for a murder she is sure he didn't commit, she finds herself his reluctant ally.

Beneath the genteel façade of upper class Edinburgh lurks blackmail, adultery, poison, and madness, and Sarah must return to Edinburgh's slums, back alleys, and asylums as she discovers the dark past about a family where no one is what they seem, even Miles himself.

It also brings her back into the orbit of her mercurial professor, Gregory Merchiston--he sees Sarah as his protege, but can he stave off his demons long enough to teach her the skills that will save her life?

Praise for THE WAGES OF SIN:

'This powerful novel combines a disturbing look at late Victorian attitudes towards women and morality with a satisfying murder mystery' Sunday Express

'An enthrallingly gothic murder mystery' The Herald

'A gripping story of murder, medicine and misogyny in Victorian Britain' Emerald Street

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Publication Details	Notes
The Wages of Sin 2017 Headline	It is 1892, and the backstreets of Edinburgh are rife with disease. Sarah Gilchrist's journey into medicine has been chequered: she's left London and scandal behind her, and embarked on a career that neither her family , nor the male students she encounters in the bastions of Edinburgh's university, is happy about. But what Sarah hasn't anticipated is the hostility of her fellow female doctors. No on is accepting of a fallen woman. Then Sarah discovers the battered corpse of one of her own patients in the dissecting rooms, and she is drawn into a murky underworld of bribery, brothels and body snatchers - and a confrontation with her own past. Even in medicine, Sarah realises, success comes at a price. Both a thrilling tale of murder and a brilliant evocation of the murky underworld of 1890s Edinburgh, Kaite Welsh illuminates the hard realities of life as a Victorian woman, while introducing us to an unforgettable heroine in Sarah Gilchrist.

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The Wages of Sin

2017

Headline

It is 1892, and the backstreets of Edinburgh are rife with disease. Sarah Gilchrist's journey into medicine has been chequered: she's left London and scandal behind her, and embarked on a career that neither her family , nor the male students she encounters in the bastions of Edinburgh's university, is happy about. But what Sarah hasn't anticipated is the hostility of her fellow female doctors. No on is accepting of a fallen woman.
Then Sarah discovers the battered corpse of one of her own patients in the dissecting rooms, and she is drawn into a murky underworld of bribery, brothels and body snatchers - and a confrontation with her own past. Even in medicine, Sarah realises, success comes at a price.
Both a thrilling tale of murder and a brilliant evocation of the murky underworld of 1890s Edinburgh, Kaite Welsh illuminates the hard realities of life as a Victorian woman, while introducing us to an unforgettable heroine in Sarah Gilchrist.