The Maiden [electronic resource]
Foster, Kate2023
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'Exceptional — a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant' — Daily Mail Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Winner of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Inspired by a real-life murder trial, The Maiden is a remarkable feminist revisionist novel that places the forgotten women of history firmly centre stage. In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me. Edinburgh, 1679. Lady Christian is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that leave little room for doubt: Adulteress. Whore. Murderess. Only a year before, Lady Christian was newly married, leading a life of privilege and respectability. So, what led her to risk everything for an affair? And does that make her guilty of murder? She wasn't the only woman in Forrester's life, and certainly not the only one who might have had cause to wish him dead . . . 'A masterpiece' — Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal 'Riveting . . . the tension persists until the last page' — The Times *The Maiden was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction on 05/03/2024
Main title:
The Maiden [electronic resource] / Kate Foster
Author:
Foster, Kate, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Kate Foster worked as a national newspaper journalist for more than twenty years before becoming an author. Growing up in Edinburgh, she became fascinated by its history and often uses it as inspiration for her stories. Her previous novels include The Maiden, which won the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and The King's Witches. The Mourning Necklace is her third novel. She lives in Edinburgh with her two children.
ISBN:
9781529091755
Language:
English
BRN:
2780392
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