The Fraud

Resumen del libro

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.

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 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.

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 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.

The '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...

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Zadie Smith x{0026}lt;/B (Londres, 1975) estudió Filología Inglesa en la Universidad de Cambridge. Miembro de la Royal Society of Literature y la American Academy of Arts and Letters, es profesora de narrativa en la Universidad de Nueva York y colabora habitualmente en x{0026}lt;I The New Yorker x{0026}lt;/I y en x{0026}lt;I The New York Review of Booksx{0026}lt;/I . En Salamandra ha publicado las novelas x{0026}lt;I Dientes blancosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I El cazador de autógrafosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Sobre la bellezax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I NW Londonx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Tiempos de swingx{0026}lt;/I , los ensayos x{0026}lt;I Cambiar de ideax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Contemplaciones x{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Con total libertadx{0026}lt;/I , y las recopilaciones de relatos x{0026}lt;I El libro de los otrosx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Grand Unionx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P