The Maiden
The Maiden
- Author/Seller
- Kate Foster
- SKU:
- 9781529091731
$35.00
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.
"In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one
believed me."
Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo 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, Christian was 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 . . .
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. The Maiden won the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect 2020 prize for new writers. She lives in Edinburgh with her two children.
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.
"In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one
believed me."
Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo 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, Christian was 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 . . .
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. The Maiden won the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect 2020 prize for new writers. She lives in Edinburgh with her two children.
