A Respectable Trade - Philippa Gregory

...know Anne Boleyn's in for a beheading. So, when I came across a respectable trade, I was refreshed to see that there were no well-known characters in the plot. No kings, no queens, and no whores with three nipples. Instead this is a tale of the slave trade, told primarily from the point of view of Frances Scott. When her father dies and she is left penniless and reliant on the charity of her Aunt and Uncle, Frances decides to seek a living as a ...
...an interview with Josiah Cole, a Bristol merchant with his heart set on big things, she is offered a position of a different kind...that of a wife. Trading her social contacts for Josiah's protection, she moves in with Josiah and his bitter sister in a stinking river warehouse, Frances has come down in the world. But with her husband’s ambitious plans for the import of slaves, she will not be down and out for long. Forced by her ambitious husband ...

Thehonesttruth 11.04.2005 · Read full review
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A Respectable Trade is a book I picked up on Amazon as part of a gift voucher birthday present. At only £1.99 new, it was a great bargain as it retails around the £8 mark normally. I was surprised to find that this book was actually written around 1996 and has been made into a BBC serial, as I've never heard anything about it. If you've heard of Philippa Gregory, it's probably because of her book The Other Boleyn Girl, which has fairly recently ...
...This in turn has created a wave of popularity for all her books - and that's how I discovered them too. Gregory is best known for her historical novels focusing on the Tudors, and whilst A Respectable Trade is still an historical work of fiction, it is set in the times of the slave trade rather than the Tudor era, and follows the story of a particular group of slaves brought to England. Gregory's Tudor novels are more tied into real (or perceived ...

jennikitten 08.01.2009 · Read full review
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