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Smith, Zadie - The Fraud
Smith, Zadie - The Fraud
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The Fraud
Author: Zadie Smith
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction
Pages: 455
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date: June 5, 2024
Format: Paperback
Size (in cm): 19.6 (height) x 13 (width) x 2.8 (depth)
ISBN: 9780241983096
Synopsis:
Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?
In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew Bogle as star witness. Watching the proceedings, and with her own story to tell, is Eliza Touchet - cousin, housekeeper and perhaps more to failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.
From literary London to Jamaica's sugar-cane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.
In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew Bogle as star witness. Watching the proceedings, and with her own story to tell, is Eliza Touchet - cousin, housekeeper and perhaps more to failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.
From literary London to Jamaica's sugar-cane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.
LGBT Themes:
- Sapphic
Relevant Tags:
Historical Fiction, Fiction, Sapphic, Historical, LGBT, Literary Fiction, Mystery, Novels, British Literature, Racism
