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A Respectable Trade

By: Philippa Gregory
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl.

Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife.

An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves.

Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history and inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful, haunting, intensely disturbing, this is a novel of desire and shame, of individuals, of a society, and of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others.

©1995 Philippa Gregory (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Thriller & Suspense Women's Fiction Women's Voices Romance Marriage Heartfelt Tear-jerking
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This is one of the most enthralling books I've listened to, in the main part because of the brilliant narration by the Adjoa Andoh and Philippa Gregory's writing. It's not often I can't stop listening but this was one of those books.

Treat yourself to this one, you won't regret it

Excellent book, really well done

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It's a fascinating book and I enjoyed it thoroughly, particularly as I have just moved to Bristol.
What is especially good though is Adjoa Andohs.s stunning narration, so rich, nuanced and such a range of well wrought characters . I've listened to circ 20 books so I'm a relative newbie but this is by far the best audible performance (and it is a performance no question) that I have listened to. Anyway, well worth a listen!

Andoh's performance is equisite.

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This book is so shocking ,it awakens the TRUTH about what we as a country was guilty of . Heartbreaking .the reader had so many variations to grapple with she is first class . I now have the book . But to hear it spoken shakes one to realisation .

Shockingly correct

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This is the first book I have read/listened to that included facts about the period and of enslaved people...touched on the fact that Black people had previously lived in great civilised societies in kingdoms with beautiful buildings and infrastructure prior to the "rape" of Africa and its people.

Excellent narrator - a well written story.

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Really enjoyed this story, the hours just flew by and the narrator is the best I have ever heard , absolutely fabulous performance.

Best narrator

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