{"product_id":"the-fraud-zadie-smith-2023","title":"The Fraud. Zadie Smith. 2023.","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is 1873.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMrs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMrs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndrew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Tichbourne Trial captivates Mrs Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichbourne 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………\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Browse Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ 9780241337004 \/ Large","offer_id":42388549959762,"sku":"SMITH110","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2696\/2492\/files\/EECD5F43-B1E7-417D-BB79-2BA69AEA485A.jpg?v=1778044805","url":"https:\/\/browsebooks.com.au\/products\/the-fraud-zadie-smith-2023","provider":"Browse Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}