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The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
Nine-year-old Tooly is spirited away from Bangkok by a seductive group of outsiders who take her from city to city across the globe. At 20, she is wandering the streets of Manhattan with a scribbled-on map, scamming strangers for her shadowy protector, Venn.
Now, aged 31, she runs a secondhand bookshop on the Welsh borders and has found peace with her strange upbringing - until she's called to return to New York to see her dying father.
Warm, hilarious and fizzing with intelligence, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers is a masterpiece about the search for identity.
Critic reviews
"Ingenious." (New York Times)
"Mesmerising." (The Times)
"Loveable." (Evening Standard)