The Fraud by Zadie Smith Paperback Book 9780241983096

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 ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKERS BEST BOOKS OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024A writer at the peak of her powers The TelegraphTruth and fiction Jamaica and Britain Who gets to tell their storyIn her first historical novel Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the reallife 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 AinsworthFrom literary London to the Jamaicas sugarcane plantations Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor the free and the enslaved and the comic and the tragicIts difficult to give any...