I cannot express my gratitude enough to Chloe Davies for bestowing upon me a stunning copy of The Maiden written by the talented Kate Foster. It was a delightful evening as my friend Joanne (who runs Portobello Book Blog) invited me to a soirée at the esteemed Edinburgh Bookshop in honour of the book launch. To add to the festivities, Fran from FranMcBookFace was also in attendance and together, their passion and enthusiasm for this novel solidified my decision to add it to my reading list.
The Maiden by Kate Foster
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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 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 . . .
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