Barbara Trapido has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators. The most-rated is Noah's Ark.
Brother of the More Famous Jack
Summary
Bright, stylish Katherine is offered a place to study philosophy by Jacob Goldman. She little expects to find herself in the Goldmans' home, a rambling house in Sussex, while Jacob's untidy but enchanting wife Jane gives birth to their sixth child, little Rosie does headstands, stroppy Jonathan goes off fishing and Roger wins her heart by playing beautiful music on his violin. Katherine and Roger embark on a love affair that ends in tears and she leaves for Rome. Years later, after much heartache of a different kind, she returns and meets the Goldmans again, who enable her to bury the past and face her own promising future.
©1982 Barbara Trapido (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Juggling
Summary
Sparky Christina and her saintly adopted sister Pam couldn't be more different. And when they meet similarly mismatched friends Jago and Peter, the four embark on a dazzling series of pairings and partings, outrageous coincidences and 11th-hour entrances interrupted one disastrous Halloween when schoolboy revelry turns horribly wrong. Three years on, as Christina analyses the wit, cruelty and crossed genders of Shakespearean comedy, the cast of her own life reunites and the curtain falls on some gloriously unexpected partnerships.
©2009 Barbara Trapido (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
The Travelling Hornplayer
Summary
Lydia is killed in a car accident, but she returns to her bereft sister as a benign ghost who, nonetheless, comes to haunt the lives of those around her in unexpected ways: Jonathan Goldman, whose flat Lydia is running from when she is knocked down; his daughter, Stella, who has discovered that her father has been having an affair with the gladiatorial Sonia; Stella's genius painter-boy lover, Izzy, whom she leaves behind as she flees to the arms of kindly Peregrine. Along with good stepmothers, bad mothers, strange professors and wicked monks, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale.
©2020 Barbara Trapido (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
Temples of Delight
Summary
Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks for. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references, Alice is left bereft. But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend and the mystery and chaos still surrounding her. Alice finds herself being seduced all over again.
©2009 Barbara Trapido (P)2020 Audible, Ltd
Noah's Ark
Summary
Alison has two failed marriages under her belt, a house full of junk and an assortment of 'bohemian' friends. When she meets Noah ,she finds a serenity never thought possible: until Noah goes away to a conference and things start to go wrong.
©1984 Barbara Trapido (P)2014 Audible, Inc.