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040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a823.914 SMI
100			_aSmith, Zadie _eauthor
245			_aThe Fraud / _cZadie Smith
300			_a455 pages ; _c24 cm
520			_aIt 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.
650			_aHistorical fiction.
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