Kathleen Grissom has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 226 ratings. The most-rated is The Kitchen House.
The Kitchen House
Summary
Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family. In time Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master's opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves. Through the unique eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom's debut novel unfolds in a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of class, race, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds.
©2010 Kathleen Grissom (P)2017 Simon & Schuster
Glory over Everything
Summary
The author of the New York Times best seller and beloved book club favorite The Kitchen House continues the story of Jamie Pyke, son of both a slave and master of Tall Oakes, whose deadly secret compels him to take a treacherous journey through the Underground Railroad. Published in 2010, The Kitchen House became a grassroots best seller. Fans connected so deeply to the book's characters that the author, Kathleen Grissom, found herself being asked over and over, "What happens next?" The wait is finally over. This new standalone novel opens in 1830, and Jamie, who fled from the Virginian plantation he once called home, is passing in Philadelphia society as a wealthy white silversmith. After many years of striving, Jamie has achieved acclaim and security, only to discover that his aristocratic lover, Caroline, is pregnant. Before he can reveal his real identity to her, he learns that his beloved servant, Pan, has been captured and sold into slavery in the South. Pan's father, to whom Jamie owes a great debt, pleads for Jamie's help, and Jamie agrees, knowing the journey will take him perilously close to Tall Oakes and the ruthless slave hunter who is still searching for him. Meanwhile Caroline's father learns and exposes Jamie's secret, and Jamie loses his home, his business, and finally Caroline. Heartbroken and with nothing to lose, Jamie embarks on a trip to a North Carolina plantation where Pan is being held with a former Tall Oakes slave named Sukey, who is intent on getting Pan to the Underground Railroad. Soon the three of them are running through the Great Dismal Swamp, the notoriously deadly hiding place for escaped slaves. Though they have help from those in the Underground Railroad, not all of them will make it out alive.
©2016 Kathleen Grissom (P)2016 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
La colline aux esclaves
Summary
États-Unis, 1791. Lavinia, jeune orpheline irlandaise, se retrouve domestique dans une plantation de tabac. Placée avec les esclaves noirs de la cuisine, sous la protection de Belle, la fille illégitime du maître, elle grandit dans la tendresse de cette nouvelle famille. Cependant, Lavinia ne peut faire oublier la blancheur de sa peau : elle pénètre peu à peu dans l'univers de la grande maison et côtoie deux mondes que tout oppose. Jusqu'au jour où une histoire d'amour fait tout basculer... Le petit monde de la plantation est mis à feu et à sang, de dangereuses vérités sont dévoilées, des vies sont menacées... >> Ce livre audio en version intégrale vous est proposé en exclusivité par Audible et est uniquement disponible en téléchargement.
©2015 Leduc.s (P)2016 Audible Studios