The fraud
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 25 cm
Status
Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Smith, Z
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Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
Language
English
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"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 skeptical. 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."--,Provided by publisher.
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Ainsworth, William Harrison, -- 1805-1882 -- Fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Housekeepers -- Fiction.
Impostors and imposture -- Fiction.
Legal fiction (Literature)
London (England) -- Fiction.
Novels.
Orton, Arthur, -- 1834-1898 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Fiction.
Peerage claims -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Trials -- Fiction.
Cousins -- Fiction.
Housekeepers -- Fiction.
Impostors and imposture -- Fiction.
Legal fiction (Literature)
London (England) -- Fiction.
Novels.
Orton, Arthur, -- 1834-1898 -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Fiction.
Peerage claims -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
Trials -- Fiction.