A Respectable Trade
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Adjoa Andoh
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Philippa Gregory
About this listen
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-07-23
Enlightening
The narrator brings this story to another level, bringing a wonderful story to life.
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- PM12SD
- 08-04-24
You never stop learning
Great insight into slave trade at height of British wealth, still shocking & heartbreaking, with good characters and insight into all sides of life in 18th C
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- Tom Benyon
- 29-05-19
Andoh's performance is equisite.
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!
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- Doncaster Belle
- 12-11-21
wonderful yet heartbreaking story
I nearly stopped listening in the middle of Chaptet 2 because the story of capturing Africans in the 1700s me cry. I'm glad I carried on though. Yes it was a sad story but it (and the performance) drew me in so much
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- Anonymous
- 15-09-23
Beautifully read, really gripping story
Striking story, very suspenseful: Bristol felt like a character. I did want to shake Frances at times though. The presentation of changing attitudes in the context of that period made me want to read more on the topic
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- Anonymous User
- 12-04-24
Insitful and compassionate look at slave trade in the 1700's
Though melodramatic and heavy-handed in places, the novel works. If I could use only one work of fiction to explain the evils of trading in people, it might well be this one.
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- Sandra Stewart
- 08-02-19
Brilliant story.
A truly gripping story of the personal lives of the people involved in and affected by the slave trade.Wonderful characters ,I was sad to finish it , definitely thoroughly enjoyable.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-11-21
Excellent narrator - a well written story.
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.
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- Jennifer Jefferson
- 10-03-22
Emotional
It bought the horrific slave trade to life. Beautifully written and so well read. I was sorry when it ended. I’d love a sequel.
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- T. Peters
- 19-10-22
a love story against an informative background
I found myself gripped; drawn into this time in history. A story of horror, love, class. The narrator made it even more enjoyable - top reading
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