Elite men who delude the masses are just one of the new book’s many strands
who has just written a historical novel, never planned to. She saw the genre as “by nature a conservative form”, guided by nostalgia for a time rather unlike the multicultural world of her life and books.
Given her catholic taste in fiction, perhaps it was only a matter of time before she would write a historical novel after all. Her sixth novel, “The Fraud”, is based on a real court battle in 1873, in which a seemingly uneducated butcher from east London claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, the presumed-drowned heir to a grand estate. Ms Smith was fascinated by how this butcher’s claim became a, with masses of Britons rooting for a self-declared aristocrat as if he was one of their own.
Ms Smith broadens the story to touch on her usual themes of race, class, identity and things that people cannot escape, like their bodies and circumstances. The reader’s witness for the legal saga is the sharp-eyed Eliza Touchet, who became a widow in her 20s.
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