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The Fraud is a historical novel based on the Tichborne case written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin in 2023.
Aug 28, 2023 · Her new novel, “The Fraud,” is based on a celebrated 19th-century criminal trial, but it keeps one eye focused clearly on today’s political populism.
Sep 5, 2023 · 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.
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Sep 5, 2023 · The Fraud leaps from stuffy English parlours to Jamaican sugar plantations, where African slaves lost their names, their loves and often their lives while toiling for the British. The effect is potent, as Ms Smith—a child of a white father and Jamaican mother—considers a worse fraud than a butcher’s claim to wealth.
Dec 7, 2023 · Both history and fiction hang in the balance. Through Eliza, the reader learns of the infamous Tichborne Trial, which unfolded over the 1860s and 1870s in Victorian England. The plaintiff, also known as the Claimant, purports to be one Sir Roger Tichborne, heir to a fortune.
The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.” — Los Angeles Times From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed
Sep 5, 2023 · Zadie Smith on the problem of the good white woman. The Fraud, a Victorian novel for the post-Trump era, is elegant, flawed, and sharp as a knife. by Constance Grady. Sep 5, 2023, 5:00 AM PDT.
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