The Fraud / Zadie Smith

By:

Smith, Zadie [author]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 455 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9780241336991

Subject(s):

Historical fiction

DDC classification:

823.914 SMI

Summary: 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.

List(s) this item appears in: M.Ndungu January 2026

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution	823.914 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B231905
Books	Cataloguing, Classification and Distribution	823.914 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B231862

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.

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The Fraud / Zadie Smith