Synopsis
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.
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780241983096
- Number of pages: 464
- Weight: 321g
- Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 30 mm
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Awful
I persevered with this one but have to say that it was terrible. Hard to follow and at times made no sense at all.
Painful
Thrown it in the bin halfway through. Would not wish this book on anyone and I’m into historical fiction.
Painful, clumsy and cliched.
Boring
I persevered with this book but it must be the most boring book I’ve read.
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