Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?
In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a
Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne
Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia,
lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew
Bogle as star witness. Watching the proceedings, and with her own story
to tell, is Eliza Touchet – cousin, housekeeper and perhaps more – to
failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth.
From literary London to the Jamaica’s sugar-cane plantations, Zadie
Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the
free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic.
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