The fraud [talking book] / Zadie Smith.

Smith, Zadie, author, narrator

Unabridged edition.

Melbourne : Bolinda Audio, 2023.

10 compact discs (12 hr., 25 min.) : digital, stereo

Narrated by the author.

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who deserves to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. Kilburn, 1873. 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. Mrs 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 faȧdes, in which nothing is quite what it seems. Andrew 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.

9781038650849 (sound discs)

823.92
AF R 101240
AF R101240
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PR6069.M59

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FIC
CDS WT

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