Island Queen: A Novel

  • Autor: Vanessa Riley
  • Narrador: Adjoa Andoh
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 21:15:47
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Sinopse

“Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A stunning must-read!”—Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba

A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. 

Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedom—and that of her sister and her mother—from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent.

Vanessa Riley’s novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life: a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas; a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells; and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England.

From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of London’s elite, Island Queen is a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid eighteenth-century morality and the oppression of women as well as people of color. It is an unforgettable portrait of a true larger-than-life woman who made her mark on history.


Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Capítulos

  • chapter 101

    Duração: 11min
  • chapter 102

    Duração: 18min
  • chapter 103

    Duração: 08min
  • chapter 104

    Duração: 10min
  • chapter 105

    Duração: 09min
  • chapter 106

    Duração: 09min
  • chapter 107

    Duração: 06min
  • chapter 108

    Duração: 11min
  • chapter 109

    Duração: 12min
  • chapter 110

    Duração: 14min
  • chapter 111

    Duração: 16min
  • chapter 112

    Duração: 12min
  • chapter 113

    Duração: 10min
  • chapter 114

    Duração: 17min
  • chapter 115

    Duração: 13min
  • chapter 116

    Duração: 07min
  • chapter 117

    Duração: 09min
  • chapter 118

    Duração: 14min
  • chapter 119

    Duração: 11min
  • chapter 120

    Duração: 12min
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