A Respectable Trade
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Narrated by:
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Adjoa Andoh
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By:
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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.
©1995 Philippa Gregory (P)2019 HarperCollins PublishersWhat listeners say about A Respectable Trade
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- Anonymous User
- 28-05-2020
Loved It
Such a page turner with fascinating history, I would recommend this book to all Philippe Gregory fans.
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- Ridesabikealot
- 09-10-2021
Excellent – great history and wonderful narration
I had to keep checking that it was only one narrator because she did such an amazing job with all of the different voices – especially the African voices. I could have listened to them all day. And very grateful for this fictional history – it’s a really important part of history that I didn’t know that much about.
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- Roslyn Everett
- 15-05-2023
Excellent
I loved this story, especially the historical about slavery that should never be forgotten.
The reading was also very well done. Usually I find a fault or two but this I can't.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-07-2019
Great Story
I likes this story - the way it was written transports you into the era and you are confronted with the world of slave traders and their disgraceful attitude towards the African race.
Narrator was excellent as well
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- Anonymous User
- 07-02-2023
Highly Recommended!
Fabulous story & amazing performance by Adjoa Andoh. I have listened to a few Philippa Gregory books now and she is a brilliant author.
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- Elvira Jagels
- 25-02-2023
Interesting, informative and very thought provoking
I didn’t really enjoy the fictional aspect of this book as much as I usually enjoy Philippa Gregory’s books, but it gave me a much wider perspective of the slave trade, it’s cruelty and its effect on the generations of African people and the African continent. As always, the author has thoroughly researched the history of the era, the places and the people. The narration was good too.
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- Helen
- 21-04-2024
Fabulous characterisation
Great piece of history telling, placing Britain at the very heart of the heinous transatlantic slave trade and exposing the ugly truth of those complicit and flagrantly exploiting the brutL, savage business for what it was: vile, uncivilized and utterly self serving. Any nobility in this trade was held by the African people themselves and those who dated to dream and risk all for a better world.
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- rita
- 03-02-2021
Not for the fair hearted
I can’t say how much I disliked this book, indeed I did not finish it.
We do not need to be reminded of the atrocities that were enacted in the past. The only redeeming feature was the brilliant narration.
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