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 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