{"product_id":"the-fraud-zadie-smith","title":"The Fraud - Zadie Smith","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel, \u003cem\u003eKilburn, 1873\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMrs Touchet is a woman of many interests—literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her novelist cousin and his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects England of being a land of façades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndrew 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. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on real historical events, \u003cem\u003eThe Fraud\u003c\/em\u003e is a dazzling novel about how, in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what’s true can prove a complicated task.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eType: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Great condition, general wear and tear\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarks\/ Annotations: None\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePage count: 454 pages \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"litsy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53378639724843,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/1001\/0155\/files\/297.png?v=1778049618","url":"https:\/\/lit-sy.com\/products\/the-fraud-zadie-smith","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}