Ursula K. Le Guin Lavinia : A compulsive, heart-breaking historical romance

She chose love. The price she paid was war. A stunning combination of history and mythology an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel FINANCIAL TIMESREADERS on LAVINIAUtterly 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 wouldnt be given, wouldnt be taken, but chose my man and my fateLavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace she is her fathers closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinias 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 mothers 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 | Ursula K. Le Guin Lavinia : A compulsive, heart-breaking historical romance