The Maiden
Editorial PAN MACMILLAN
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher PAN MACMILLAN
- ISBN13 9781529091748
- ISBN10 1529091748
- Type Book
- Pages 384
- Published 2024
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
The Maiden
Editorial PAN MACMILLAN
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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 . . . 'Threat hangs over every page like the awaiting guillotine, but the women in this book gleam sharper. Witty, gritty and full of heart, their voices rise through the brutality and hardship of 17th century Edinburgh, battling to be heard' - Cari Thomas, bestselling author of Threadneedle