***The Fraud*** - **Zadie Smith**
Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?

Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. Readers are at odds over whether the defendant is who he claims to be - or an imposter.

Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class. But she is also sceptical. She suspects England of being a land of façades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.

Andrew Bogle meanwhile finds himself the star witness, his future depending on telling the right story. Growing up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica, he knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor.

Based on real historical events, *The Fraud* is a dazzling novel about how in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what's true can prove a complicated task.

*Smith’s dazzling historical novel combines deft writing and strenuous construction in a tale of literary London and the horrors of slavery.* Guardian

A gripping historical read - enjoy!

Angela

**Future reads**
*The Garden Evening Mist* by Tan Twan Eng
*After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie* by Jean Rhys

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