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Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father; A Novel Audiobook, by Sally Cabot Gunning Play Audiobook Sample

Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father; A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Cassandra Campbell Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2016 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780062471871

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

49

Longest Chapter Length:

24:00 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

13 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

14:34 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

5

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Publisher Description

From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter—Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph.

After the death of her beloved mother, Martha Jefferson spent five years abroad with her father, Thomas Jefferson, on his first diplomatic mission to France. Now, at seventeen, Jefferson’s bright, handsome eldest daughter is returning to the lush hills of the family’s beloved Virginia plantation, Monticello. While the large, beautiful estate is the same as she remembers, Martha has changed. The young girl that sailed to Europe is now a woman with a heart made heavy by a first love gone wrong.

The world around her has also become far more complicated than it once seemed. The doting father she idolized since childhood has begun to pull away. Moving back into political life, he has become distracted by the tumultuous fight for power and troubling new attachments. The home she adores depends on slavery, a practice Martha abhors. But Monticello is burdened by debt, and it cannot survive without the labor of her family’s slaves. The exotic distant cousin she is drawn to has a taste for dangerous passions, dark desires that will eventually compromise her own.

As her life becomes constrained by the demands of marriage, motherhood, politics, scandal, and her family’s increasing impoverishment, Martha yearns to find her way back to the gentle beauty and quiet happiness of the world she once knew at the top of her father’s “little mountain.”

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“Well researched and beautifully written, this captivating novel tells the remarkable story of Thomas Jefferson’s daughter caught up in two families’ secrets. Highly recommended.”

— Paulette Jiles, New York Times bestselling author

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About Sally Cabot Gunning

Sally Cabot Gunning is the author of three Satucket novels, The Widow’s WarBound, and The Rebellion of Jane Clarke, as well as the historical novels Benjamin Franklin’s BastardMonticello, and Painting the Light. A lifelong resident of New England, she is active in local historical organizations and creates tours that showcase the three-hundred-year history of her village.

About Cassandra Campbell

Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration. She was been named a “Best Voice” by AudioFile magazine and in 2018 was inducted in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame.