About Izabella
Izabella Scott is a queer writer from London. She is the author of The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial (2026); and co-author with Skye Arundhati Thomas of Pleasure Gardens (2024), which was joint winner of the 2025 Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing.
About the Book
In her riveting and forensic examination of the case of Gayle Newman, a woman accused by her former best friend ofimpersonating a man during sex and convicted of ‘rape by deception’, Izabella Scott interrogates the case from every conceivable angle. Exposing the slippery side of consent law, the many myths and archetypes that crowd the courtroom, and the shifting rules of deceptive sex, Scott questions: Whose narratives are heard? Who is seen as a credible victim and what is considered a credible crime? The Bed Trick: Sex and Deception on Trial is a lucid, vivid story about stories—their limits, their merits—and the ways we lie in love, in life, and in law.
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