![]() Only a year before, Lady Christian was newly married, leading a life of privilege and respectability. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that leave little room for doubt: Adulteress. ![]() Lady Christian is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. No one believed me."Įdinburgh, October 1679. "In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. 'Exceptional - a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant' – Daily Mail ![]() 'A masterpiece' – Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code ![]()
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