Phoenix Fiction, 320 pages
English language
Published Dec. 28, 2010 by Orion Publishing Group, Limited.
"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."
By the sacred springs in the forests near her home, Lavinia, young princess of Latium, encounters a poet – a soothsayer – who foretells her future: to marry a Trojan hero named Aeneas and found a great kingdom and a mighty dynasty.
Lavinia's mother has other plans – to marry her daugther off to an ambitious neighbouring king – and her father is plagued with indecision. But when a fleet of foreign warships sails into the mouth of the river Tiber, Lavinia knows her destiny is calling...
A book truly made for me, the world's foremost lover of Leftover Ladies, the piece de resistance being that, like, damn, that's a Writer.
