'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. The man was famous, the fate obscure; not a bad balance.' 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, King Turnus of Rutulia, 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 Turnus, Lavinia knows she will start a war - but her fate was set the moment the poet appeared to her in a dream and told her of the adventurer who fled fallen Troy, holding his son's hand and carrying his father on his back...
| ISBN | 0753827840 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9780753827840
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 234 | | Publisher | Orion Publishing Co | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) | | Previous ISBN | 9780575084612 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 13 May 2010 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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'a superbly researched, beautifully written, profound and moving novel' CATHOLIC HERALD
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