The Fraud- [Hardcover]

By: Zadie Smith

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Historical fiction, Mystery - Suspense, Novel,

ISBN: 97006478

SKU: BE500722937724

Pages: 458

Description: 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.