The Fraud (2023)

By Zadie Smith

464pp, Fiction

Rating:4/5

Notes

2026-09-25

Picked this up in the charity shop on Hornsey High Road for £1.50! In hardback no less!

I always forget how much I enjoy Zadie Smith's novels. For some reason I always think of them as difficult but I don't find them so when I actually get round to reading them. I felt this one kind of faltered a little in the last third, after the pivot of Bogle's story but I thought up to that point might be my favourite of her books.

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