Chioma asked Zadie for advice on how to navigate a move back to the UK after an extended stint as a New Yorker . Of course, we asked Zadie about her fabulous style, from her High Street staples paired with vintage jewelry, to the blood sport of Rachel Comey sample sales in New York City, to her unexpected family connection with JW Anderson.
The first half of the book centers on Eliza Touchet, a widowed housekeeper for her prolific, but not particularly talented, novelist cousin, the real-life William Ainsworth. It goes on to recount the famous historical trial of Roger Tickborn, a butcher claiming to be a shipwrecked aristocrat and heir to a Jamaican sugar fortune, who, despite ample evidence to the contrary, received widespread popular support, inviting parallels to Trumpism and American populism.