Derby Day
About this audiobook
As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all of England is heading for Epsom Down—high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air—this is Derby Day. For months people have been waiting and plotting for this day. Everyone's eyes are on champion horse Tiberius, on whose performance half a dozen destinies depend.
In this rich and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile high, propelling us toward the day of the great race, and we wait with bated breath as the story gallops to a finish that no one expects.
About the author
D. J. Taylor is a renowned critic, novelist, and biographer. After attending school in Norwich, he went on to study modern history at St. John's College in Oxford. A contributor to The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, and other publications, he received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography on George Orwell. He currently resides with his wife and three sons in Norwich.
Robert Whitfield is the pseudonym for Simon Vance, an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has also won more than a dozen prestigious Audie Awards and has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over thirty years.
