THE FRAUD is a page-turning historical novel fact-based on the celebrated 19th century trial to establish the inheritor of one of England's largest estates. Real life characters include a once famous novelist who has seen better days and the country's most successful writer, Charles Dickens. There's a possibility a lower class butcher might be the rightful heir. The shrewd and mesmerizing story winds around who is telling the truth and who is the fraud.
This copy wa signed by Zadie Smith on a page bound into the book.
