{"product_id":"9780525558965","title":"The Fraud A Novel - Zadie Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Fraud A Novel\u003c\/u\u003e by Zadie Smith\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover with Dust Jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Penguin, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times bestseller • \u003cb\u003eOne of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year \u003cb\u003e• \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and BookPage \u003cb\u003e• One of Oprah Daily's Best Novels of 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\n“[A] brilliant new entry in Smith’s catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.” —Los Angeles Times\n\n\n\nFrom 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\n\n\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n 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.\n\n\n\n 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.\n\n\n\n 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.\n\n\n\n The “Tichborne Trial”—wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ecaptivates 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. . . .\n\n\n\n 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin, 2023","offers":[{"title":"The Fraud A Novel \/ Very Good","offer_id":51310210023716,"sku":"9780525558965VG","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_a0434676-6789-4247-ba33-fff52b0f1540.jpg?v=1781791717","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780525558965","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}