Doncella, La - Kate Foster

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Résumé :
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....

Biographie:
Kate Foster is a Scottish writer and has been a journalist for a national newspaper for over twenty years. Having grown up in Edinburgh, she is fascinated by its history and often uses it as inspiration for her books. The Maid is her first novel and won the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year award in 2023 and was a finalist for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2024. She is also the author of The King's Witches and The Mourning Necklace. Kate lives in Edinburgh with her two children....