Lavinia

She chose love. The price she paid was war.

A stunning combination of history and mythology - 'an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel' FINANCIAL TIMES

READERS on LAVINIA:

'Utterly compelling' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Clever twist' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Super' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate'

Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father's closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia's mother favours her own kinsman, handsome, heroic, everything a young girl should want. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods' holy place and tells her of her future, and Aeneas' past. . . If she refuses to wed her mother's choice, Lavinia knows she will start a war. . .

'Subtly moving, playful. . . a novel that brought me to tears more than once. Lavinia is a delightful heroine' GUARDIAN