{"product_id":"the-fraud-pre-order-for-7-9-23","title":"The Fraud","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is 1873.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMrs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMrs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAndrew 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 realise. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 'Tichborne Trial' 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback 400 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241336991\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 7 Sept 2023\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41051518271532,"sku":"9780241336991","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/products\/zadie-front_1.png?v=1677765661","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/the-fraud-pre-order-for-7-9-23","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}