The Maiden: The Award-Winning, Daring, Feminist Debut Novel

Based on a true story, The Maiden is a feminist revisionist tale that gives voices to women who have been historically marginalized. The novel was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger and Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 29 February 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

A masterpiece, according to bestselling author Janice Hallett, The Appeal has been longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 and shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2024. Inspired by a real-life murder trial, Kate Foster's The Maiden 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. 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.

Exceptional, a tense, thrilling investigation, with a decidedly feminist slant, The Maiden was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction on March 5, 2024. Riveting, the tension persists until the last page, according to The Times.

Weight: 262g
Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529091748