{"product_id":"the-maiden","title":"The Maiden","description":"\u003cp\u003eA masterpiece' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author ofand The AppealLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2024Winner of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2023Inspired by a real-life murder trial, Kate Foster'sand The Maidenand 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.and 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:and Adulteress. Whore.and 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'and -and Daily Mail'Riveting . . . the tension persists until the last page' -and The Times*The Maidenand was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction on 05\/03\/202\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Foster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44268123619388,"sku":"9781529091748","price":2155.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/9781529091748.jpg?v=1776844121","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-maiden","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}