The Fraud

No one understands humans better. As this novel shows, there is no better guide to people and their bottomlessness than Smith herself

iNews

This was really delightful. 10/10. Zadie Smith is a genius

Brandon Taylor author of The Late Americans

A novel full of people, ideas, humour, feeling and something like moral truth – the stuff of life

Evening Standard

Searingly original [and] virtuosic . . . the book masterfully depicts post-emancipation Britain as it ruptures along faultlines of class and race

Vogue

Brilliant. A Dickensian delight

Los Angeles Times

The Fraud is unlike anything you’ll read this year: a charismatic, cerebral novel that asks us to consider the greatest fraud of all, that of one man claiming to hold the key to another’s freedom

Irish Times

A wonderful meditation on truth and falsehood, and the boundaries between fact and fiction

Spectator

A big, rich saga, tumbling with characters and big issues (feminism, slavery, truth)

The Times, 'Best Novels of 2023'

The Fraud is a complex mosaic of interweaving plots . . . The novel pulls off the trick of being both splendidly modern and authentically old and the characters are varied and entertaining

Independent, ‘Best Books of 2023’