The fraud
"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, thi...
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| 520 | |a "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. Andrew 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 realize. When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story. The "Tichborne Trial"--wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title--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." "-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Orton, Arthur, |d 1834-1898 |x Trials, litigation, etc. |v Fiction. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Impostors and imposture |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Housekeepers |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cousins |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Trials |v Fiction. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Ainsworth, William Harrison, |d 1805-1882 |v Fiction. |
| 651 | 0 | |a London (England) |v Fiction. | |
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