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03530aim a2200493 i 4500 001 CC74AEF2AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240103010037 006 m dq h 007 cs nzannnauuuu 007 sz zunznnnzneu 008 231009r2023uuuuohunnnn q f n eng d 020 $a 9798822676879 028 01 $a 45225 $b Playaway Products 035 $a (OCoLC)1405225003 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Smith, Zadie, $e author. 245 14 $a The fraud / $c Zadie Smith. 264 1 $a Solon, Ohio : $b Playaway Products, LLC, $c [2023] 300 $a 1 audio media player (12:25:55) : $b digital, HD audio ; $c 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. 500 $a Release date supplied by publisher. 500 $a Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. 500 $a One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. 500 $a Previously released by Penguin Random House. 520 $a From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story--and who deserves to be believed 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 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. The "Tichborne Trial"--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--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. . . . Based on real historical events, The Fraud is a dazzling novel about truth and fiction, Jamaica and Britain, fraudulence and authenticity and the mystery of "other people." 521 $a Adult. 600 10 $a Orton, Arthur, $d 1834-1898 $x Trials, litigation, etc. $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Ainsworth, William Harrison, $d 1805-1882 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Peerage claims $z Great Britain $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Impostors and imposture $v fiction. 650 0 $a Housekeepers $v fiction. 650 0 $a Cousins $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Trials $v Fiction. 651 0 $a London (England) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Legal fiction (Literature) $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 710 2 $a Playaway Digital Audio, $e issuing body. 710 2 $a Playaway Products, LLC, $e issuing body. 941 $a 3 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509011334.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240104010409.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240103010101.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CC74AEF2AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search