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Title Statement | The fraud / Zadie Smith. |
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Author | Smith, Zadie |
Publication | Toronto, ON: Hamish Hamilton Canada,2023. |
Extent of Item | 454 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780735235441 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07078702 |
Summary | "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. 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"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Fraud--Fiction |
Housekeepers--Fiction | |
Impostors and imposture--Fiction | |
Novelists--Fiction | |
Trials (Impostors and imposture)--Fiction | |
By Location | London (England)--Fiction |
By Genre | Historical fiction |
Novels |