The Fraud by Zadie Smith Abbey Laurent

Abbey Laurent

Murray's meticulous study has unearthed original manuscripts from Montrose to Mumbai to put together a detailed study of how British secret agents operated in India

and immersion in character

Published by Thistledown Press 1988

Thirty years ago

The Fraud by Zadie Smith Abbey Laurent*Used like new Published by Hamish Hamilton 2023 From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their storyand who gets to be believed. It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeperand cousin by marriageof a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.