{"product_id":"the-bed-trick-by-izabella-scott-9781805462545","title":"The Bed Trick","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe said she wore a blindfold at all times. She said she didn't know who she was really having sex with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003cem\u003erape by deception\u003c\/em\u003e. In literature, the plot has been named \u003cem\u003ethe bed trick\u003c\/em\u003e. Shakespeare made it famous in plays with lovers switching places in the dark, but in real life, a consummated bed trick is rare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs \u003cem\u003eThe Bed Trick\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496555430124,"sku":"9781805462545","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781805462545-the-bed-trick.jpg?v=1775798831","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-bed-trick-by-izabella-scott-9781805462545","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}