Zadie Smith
The Fraud
The Fraud
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Zadie Smith's novel 'The Fraud' is a historical novel set in Victorian England, following the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant. It explores the lives of Eliza Touchet, a cousin, housekeeper, and perhaps more, and William Harrison Ainsworth, a failing novelist. The book combines brilliantly researched and detailed history with intensely imagined fiction, and has been shortlisted for numerous awards. It is considered a masterpiece by critics and readers alike.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 06 June 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Book of the Year 2023 according to
New York Times,New Yorker,Guardian,Economist,Observer,The Spectator,Financial Times,Vogue,The Times,The Oldie,i Paper,The Standard,Washington Post,Independent,Daily Express
SHORTLISTED FOR
WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR
THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKERS BEST BOOKS OF 2023
LONGLISTED FOR
THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024
‘A writer at the peak of her powers
The Telegraph
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 the Jamaicas 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.
‘Its difficult to give any idea of how extraordinary this book is. One of the great historical novels, certainly. But has any historical novel ever combined such brilliantly researched and detailed history with such intensely imagined fiction?
Michael Frayn
‘As always it is a pleasure to be in Zadie Smiths mind . . . Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive
New York Times
‘Zadie Smiths Victorian-set masterpiece holds a mirror up to Britain . . . The Fraud is the genuine article
Independent
‘Smiths dazzling historical novel combines deft writing and s.
Weight: 320g
Dimension: 130 x 199 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241983096
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