Zadie Smith

The Waterstones Podcast vor 3 Jahren

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From her debut novel 23 years ago, Zadie Smith has held both
readers and critics in rapt attention. That debut was of course
White Teeth, which went on to become a multi award-winning
bestseller, and whilst the novels that have followed have taken
readers to different parts of the world, she has for many been an
essential chronicler of life in London. Her new novel, The Fraud,
is set once again in our capital city but in a surprise to some,
including the author herself perhaps, it is set during the
Tichborne Case of 1873, making this her first historical novel.
We spoke to discover what it was about this case and those
involved in it that caused her to give in to the genre she had
avoided so assiduously.