{"product_id":"the-fraud-zadie-smith","title":"Zadie Smith - The Fraud (Waterstones Exclusive Hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003cp\u003eThe '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...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Sea Records","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52394174906680,"sku":"9780241336991","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/5803\/3464\/files\/9780241336991.jpg?v=1779119610","url":"https:\/\/www.deadsearecords.co.uk\/products\/the-fraud-zadie-smith","provider":"Dead Sea Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}