The Maiden - Foster, Kate
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'A masterpiece' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2024 Winner of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2023
Inspired by a real-life murder trial, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist that gives voices to women otherwise silenced by history.
In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me.
Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester.…mehr

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'A masterpiece' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2024
Winner of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2023

Inspired by a real-life murder trial, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist that gives voices to women otherwise silenced by history.

In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me.

Edinburgh, October 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 . . .

'Exceptional - a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant' - Daily Mail

'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
Autorenporträt
Kate Foster has been a national newspaper journalist for over twenty years. Growing up in Edinburgh, she became fascinated by its history and often uses it as inspiration for her stories. Her debut novel, The Maiden, won the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year in 2023 and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2024. The King's Witches is her second novel. She lives in Edinburgh with her two children.
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The Maiden is a masterpiece. A thrilling historical murder tale but so much more. Vivid, evocative and full of humanity. I took each and every character to my heart. The fact this is inspired by a true story makes it all the more chilling and relevant. I was transported to seventeenth-century Edinburgh so completely, I'm sure a part of me is still there Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code
The Maiden is a masterpiece. A thrilling historical murder tale but so much more. Vivid, evocative and full of humanity. I took each and every character to my heart. The fact this is inspired by a true story makes it all the more chilling and relevant. I was transported to seventeenth-century Edinburgh so completely, I'm sure a part of me is still there Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code