02982cam a2200289 4500 1009337158 TxAuBib 20231012120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593788783 0593788788 d083ab59-7e4f-45c7-ab5a-c4ad94107996 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9631370 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Smith, Zadie. The Fraud [Libby] : A Novel. Books on Tape, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 342MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 342MB. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>The instant <i>New York Times</i> bestseller.<br /> From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed</b><br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> The “Tichborne Trial”—wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title<b>—</b>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. . . .<br /> Based on real historical events, <i>The Fraud</i> is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of “other people.”. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-10-12 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d083ab59-7e4f-45c7-ab5a-c4ad94107996&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d083ab59-7e4f-45c7-ab5a-c4ad94107996&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)