The Fraud

The extraordinary first historical novel from standalone bestseller Zadie Smith Nineteenth century England. A curious world in which people say one thing and mean another, produce false facts and spread them, ignore the unignorable, fudge the line between fiction and reality, preach freedom and yet practise subjection. Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Tichborne Claimant, and a remarkable housekeeper called Mrs Touchet....