THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF H

With its nontraditional heroine and harrowing twists, this audiobook is so absorbing that listeners will be hooked from the very beginning. "H" is our guide to her own life's adventures in seventeenth-century London, and narrator Karen Cass is so agile in her performance that the action flies past as if this were a film. Punctuated by events like the plague and a conflagration, H's story is compelling. Cass offers a nimble, knowing voice as she navigates a broad cast of characters and an avid narrative style. There are echoes of Dickens and even Austen in this otherwise fully contemporary-styled novel, and any listener is likely to find the entire story relatable and thought-provoking. L.B.F. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2020]