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ID: 650624
Title: Fraud
Author: Zadie Smith
Narrator: Zadie Smith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:26:15
Language: English
Release date: 09-07-23
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth 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 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.'
PRAISE FOR ZADIE SMITH:
'A writer of remarkable wit and originality' Observer
'[Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation' Sunday Telegraph
'A brilliant writer' A M Homes
©2023 Zadie Smith (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Contact: [email protected]
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ID: 650624
Title: Fraud
Author: Zadie Smith
Narrator: Zadie Smith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:26:15
Language: English
Release date: 09-07-23
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth 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 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.'
PRAISE FOR ZADIE SMITH:
'A writer of remarkable wit and originality' Observer
'[Smith] packs more intelligence, humour and sheer energy into any given scene than anyone else of her generation' Sunday Telegraph
'A brilliant writer' A M Homes
©2023 Zadie Smith (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Contact: [email protected]