The fraud / Zadie Smith.
"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.""-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525558965
- ISBN: 0525558969
- Physical Description: 454 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
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General Note: | "A novel"--cover. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Novels. |
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- 7 of 8 copies available at York County Libraries.
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Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults SMI Fiction (Text) | 34001001446481 | Adult Area | Available | - |
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Glatfelter Memorial Library | Adults SMI Fiction (Text) | 34216000940173 | Adult Area | Available | - |
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Martin Library | Adults SMI Fiction (Text) | 33454005961909 | Reading Room Balcony | Checked Out | 09/30/2024 |
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Paul Smith Library of Southern York County | Adults SMI Fiction (Text) | 34318001234653 | Adult Area | Available | - |
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