Newport: A Novel Audiobook (Free)
- Johanna Parker
- HarperAudio
- 2015-07-07
Summary:
Pursuing in the measures of Beatriz Williams and Amor Towles, this richly atmospheric, spellbinding book transports readers towards the amazing, glamorous world of Newport through the Roaring Twenties and to a mansion filled with secrets like a debonair lawyer need to split truth from deception.
Spring 1921. THE FANTASTIC War has ended, Prohibition is completely swing, the Depressive disorder still years aside, and Newport, Rhode Island’s glittering “summer time cottages” are inhabited with the gloriously rich families who about Newport: A Book built them.
Lawyer Adrian De la Noye is no stranger to Newport, having sheltered there during his misspent youth. Though he’d choose to forget the place, he returns to revise the will of the well-heeled customer. Bennett Chapman’s offspring possess the usual worries about their father’s much-younger fiancée. But when they observe the outdated widower’s firm belief that his initial late wife, who “communicates” via séance, has chosen the beautiful Catherine Walsh for him, they’re surprised. And for Adrian, encountering Catherine within the last place he noticed her decades ago proves to be always a far greater shock.
Still, De la Noye is here now to take care of a will, and he completely intends to accomplish so-just as soon as he unearths every last key, otherworldly or not, approximately the Chapmans, Catherine Walsh . and his very own very fraught background.
A skillful alchemy of social satire, dark humor, and finely drawn personas, Newport vividly brings to life the glitzy era from the 1920s.