Inspired by a real-life murder trial, Kate Foster\'s The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. .. .
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 .
Murderess.
Only a year before, Lady Christian was newly married, leading a life of privilege and respectability.
Whore.
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.
Edinburgh, October 1679.
Winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award 2022 and the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2023.
In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial.
Inspired by a real-life murder trial, Kate Foster\'s The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history
