{"product_id":"le-guin-lavinia","title":"Le Guin: Lavinia","description":"An exceptional combination of history and mythology - 'an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel' FINANCIAL TIMES\n\n'Subtly moving, playful...a novel that brought me to tears more than once. Lavinia is a delightful heroine' GUARDIAN\n\n'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.'\n\nLavinia 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...\n\nIf 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...","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":32686088781909,"sku":"9780753827840N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9780753827840.jpg?v=1598878175","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/le-guin-lavinia","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}