{"product_id":"the-fraudbooks","title":"The Fraud","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eZadie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\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. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. 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. Andrew 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 realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story. The 'Tichborne Trial'--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Smith, Zadie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Adult Fiction S-Z)","offer_id":46052030611680,"sku":"","price":20.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47460717035744,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/ScreenShot2024-07-18at4.40.33PM.png?v=1721331653","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fraudbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}