The Fraud: Signed Exclusive edition with Black page edges. - Rare Bookmark. - Protected Dust Jacket in Fine New condition:- The instant Sunday Times bestseller.

Smith, Zadie

ISBN 10: 0241336996 / ISBN 13: 9780241336991

Published by Hamish Hamilton, 2023

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1st Edition, 1st printing Uk Hardcover Indépendant Bookshop exclusive edition with sprayed black edges. Bookmark as released. In very fine new unread condition with fine protected dust jacket. Packed securely in a twin walled carton.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fraud: Signed Exclusive edition with Black page edges. - Rare Bookmark. - Protected Dust Jacket in Fine New condition:- The instant Sunday Times bestseller.
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241336996
• ISBN 13: 9780241336991
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Fiction

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Synopsis

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 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 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.'