BONNY & READ by Julie Walker, read by Peta Cornish - audiobook extract
Rebels. Outlaws. Icons.\n\nCaribbean, 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run\u2014from their pasts, from the British Navy and the threat of execution and from the destiny that fate has written for them.\n\nPlantation owner's daughter, runaway wife, pirate\u2014Anne Bonny has forged her own story in a man's world. But when she is involved in the capture of a British merchant ship, she is amazed to find another woman amongst the crew, with a history as unconventional as her own. Dressed as a boy from childhood, Mary Read has been a soldier, a sailor, a widow\u2014but never a woman in charge of her own destiny.\n\nAs their exhilarating, tumultuous exploits find fame, the ballad of Bonny and Read is sung from shore to shore\u2014but when you swim against the tide of history, freedom is a dangerous thing....\n\nAn exuberant reimagining of the extraordinary story of Bonny & Read\u2014trailblazing, boundary-defying, swashbuckling heroines whose story deserves to be known.