Name: The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial
SKU: 64820901
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Author: Izabella Scott
ISBN: 9781805462545

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The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Atlantic Books

Autor

Izabella Scott

Año

2026

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6x13.8 cm

ISBN13

9781805462545

The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial

Izabella Scott (Autor) · Atlantic Books · Tapa Blanda

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'A brilliant analysis of the trial of Gayle Newland...Scott is a supremely good guide to this complex terrain, thoughtful, nuanced and agile' Olivia Laing, Guardian

She said she wore a blindfold at all times. She said she didn't know who she was really having sex with.

Two former best friends face each other in court at a sex offence trial. Miss X, making the accusation, claims she was tricked into queer sex, many times, by a best friend pretending to be her boyfriend. But that friend, Gayle Newland, tells a different story. They were secret lesbians, she says, lovers in the closet. The boyfriend was imaginary, and part of a role play that had been going on for years.

This astonishing case reached UK courtrooms twice in 2015 and 2017, capturing national attention. At both trials, Newland was convicted of a rare and controversial crime known as 'rape by deception'. In literature, the plot has been named 'the bed trick'. Shakespeare made it famous in plays with lovers switching places in the dark, but in real life, a consummated bed trick is rare.

As The Bed Trick unfolds the riveting story of Newland's trials - a case where reality was stranger than fiction - it also reveals the malleability of courtroom narratives, and the many myths, archetypes and stories embedded in the law.