The Bed Trick
Reception
Mostly positive. 5 of 6 critics were positive or better.
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“An astoundingly well-calibrated mixture of legal reporting and literary analysis … The Newland trials are rich texts, and Scott pores over every transcript page, looking for meaning.”
2 more quotes
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“When Scott is telling the two conflicting narratives laid out in the courtroom this is a riveting and revealing book that takes the reader deep into the processes of justice…”
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“Scott is less interested in whether this was the correct verdict than she is in investigating the larger meanings of this strange, sad trial, which exposed the private lives of…”
- 2026
- 2026
Read the 2 reviews
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‘The Bed Trick,’ by Izabella Scott
“The Bed Trick” details an extraordinary sexual deception case involving a “bamboozling plot,” “two implausible stories” and a world where no one behaves reasonably.
By Benoit Denizet-Lewis
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When “Gender Deception” Is a Crime
A new book revisits a notorious British sexual-assault trial in which a woman was convicted of posing as a man in bed.
By S. C. Cornell
Catalogue record
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
- ISBN
- 978-1-80546-254-5
Full recordClose
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
- ISBN
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- 978-1-80546-254-5
- Author
- Scott, Izabella, 1987–
- Statement
- The Bed Trick / Izabella Scott.
- Records
- Open Library
- United Kingdom