Hard Times

Released: December 17, 2022
Length: 3 hrs 16 mins
Format: Abridged Audiobook
Publisher: Phoenix Books

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Set in a gritty textile town, this story follows Thomas Gradgrind, a pragmatic businessman who values facts over imagination and raises his children accordingly. As events unfold—including a problematic marriage for his daughter Louisa and his son Tom's misconduct—Gradgrind faces a reckoning with the limitations of his strict worldview and begins to reevaluate his beliefs.

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