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London 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet ist die schottische Haushälterin und angeheiratete Cousine des einstmals erfolgreichen Schriftstellers William Ainsworth. Eliza ist aufgeweckt und kritisch. Sie zweifelt daran, dass Ainsworth Talent hat. Und sie fürchtet, dass England ein Land der Fassaden ist, in dem nichts so ist, wie es scheint.

Mit ihrer Schwägerin besucht sie die Gerichtsverhandlungen des Tichborne-Falls, in der ein ungehobelter Mann behauptet, der seit zehn Jahren verschollene Sohn der reichen Lady Tichborne zu sein. Andrew Bogle, ehemaliger Sklave aus...

'Married five times. Mother. Lover.

Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here.

And neverScared to tell the whole of her truth, whetherOr not anyone wants to hear it. WifeOf Willesden: pissed enough to tell her lifeStory to whoever has ears and eyes . .

.'Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, The Wife of Willesden is a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath's Prologue, brought to glorious life on the Kilburn High Road. Commissioned to celebrate Brent's year...

At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England's irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite...

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.

It is 1873.

Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.

Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr...