AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION* Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Globe and Mail , The Walrus, and Publishers Weekly From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story--and who gets to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by ...
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WRITERS' PRIZE FOR FICTION* Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Globe and Mail , The Walrus, and Publishers Weekly From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story--and who gets to be believed. 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 has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life, and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Andrew Bogle meanwhile grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica. He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. He knows that the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realize. 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"--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--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 a complicated task... Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity, and the mystery of "other people."
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Fine in Fine, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) First Printing stated on verso of title page; signed by Zadie Smith on the title page with no inscription; a solid, clean, unread copy in collectible condition; 456 pages; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.
