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The fraud
Smith, Zadie2023
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It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she lived for thirty years. She is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wife, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. Andrew Bogle, meanwhile, grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realise. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story. The 'Tichborne trial' captivates Mrs Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr Bogle is no fool. But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves to be a complicated task...
Main title:
The fraud / Zadie Smith.
Author:
Smith, Zadie, author
Imprint:
UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2023.
Collation:
455 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780241336991 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
Related title:
The Fraud [electronic resource] : The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
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BRN:
5557748
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