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Virgin Earth

By: Philippa Gregory
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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About this listen

Sequel to the outstanding historical novel Earthly Joys, and written by the bestselling Philippa Gregory, the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Virgin’s Lover.

John Tradescant the Younger has inherited his father’s unique collection of plants along with his unerring ability to nurture them. But as gardener to Charles I, he confronts an unbearable dilemma when England descends into Civil War. Fleeing from the chaos, John travels to the Royalist colony of Virginia in America. But the virgin land is not uninhabited. John’s plant hunting brings him to live with the native people, and he learns to love and respect their way of life just as it is threatened by the colonial settlers.

In the new world and the old, the established order is breaking down and every family has to find its own way of surviving. For the Tradescants, through the upheavals of the Commonwealth and the Restoration, this means consolidating their reputations as the greatest gardeners in the country.

©2019 Philippa Gregory (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Urban War & Military War Military Civil War

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Excellent listening and extremely well read.
I will recommend to all my friends
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Loved every minute

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story and marvelled at the research that must have gone into it.
it was well performed and it has encouraged me to reflect anew about many aspects related to this important period of our nations history.
I am happy to recommend it and the author to other listener.

A great read!

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The narrator made this book interesting. Phillipa Gregory has done her research well. Like the first book Earthly Joys, if you enjoy gardening and have a love of history then listen to this book. I learnt so much from it. Not sure that I could have read it as it seemed very long but the narrator read it so well I was hooked right from the beginning.

Gardening and history

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I loved these books. Would have welcomed an author’s note on historical accuracy vs creative licence. But extremely interesting on many levels.

Great

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This book is sadly not as good as the first ‘Earthly Joys’ but it’s still captivating.
The narrator is not the same as the first book & although he tells a good yarn & is certainly skilful, the voices he selected for the main characters turn the story into a farce at times. The writing is much lazier than in the first book & im afraid to say the main character completely lacks any virtues, so mustering up empathy for his plights is a task. Still it’s well worth a listen & if there was a 3rd book even if it was of this calibre I would still buy it.
Hester came to a sticky end in real life…an end that is worthy of investigation.

Riveting sequel

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