Golden Hill Audiobook by Francis Spufford

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/79/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Golden Hill Subtitle: A Novel of Old New York Author: Francis Spufford Narrator: Sarah Borges Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins Language: English Release date: 07-04-17 Publisher: Simon and Schuster Audio Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 193 votes Genres: Fiction, Literary Publisher's Summary: New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat arrives at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: This is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. For in his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, a huge sum, and he won't explain why, or where he comes from, or what he is planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money. Should the New York merchants trust him? Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay? Should they befriend him, seduce him, arrest him...maybe even kill him? Rich in language and historical perception yet compulsively listenable, Golden Hill is a story "taut with twists and turns" that "keeps you gripped until its tour-de-force conclusion" (The Times, London). Spufford paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later metropolitan self but already entirely a place where a young man with a fast tongue can invent himself afresh, fall in love - and find a world of trouble. Critic Reviews: Nothing short of a masterpiece. (The Guardian)