The FraudThe instant New York Times bestseller. 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. Mrs. Touchet