Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children's author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection Inside the Wave.
An assured, addictive and captivating tale of forbidden love.
Dunmore possesses a gift for turning every genre she touches into
gold
*Daily Telegraph*
A highly charged, richly evocative story of illicit passion . . .
conjures up the corruption and rampant consumerism of ancient
Rome
*Daily Mail*
Powerful, memorable, compelling
*Sunday Times*
Dunmore brings to life the people, the smells and the streets of a
city where greed is good and lust for sex as well as power is what
drives men and women on . . . richly evocative, sparkling
*Tribune*
Marvellous, powerful, convincing, captivating, compelling,
mesmerising, seductive, inventive . . . Dunmore at her most
innovative and daring
*Time Out*
Striking, memorable
*Sunday Times*
A moving, passionate tale of two people in love
*Independent*
Thanks to generous helpings of corruption, promiscuity, hedonism
and celebrity, the Roman Empire feels startlingly modern
*Psychologies*
Elegant, transfixing character-driven historical fiction
*Financial Times*
Her narrative moves in sensuous leisure...the landscape is
exquisitely realised
*Literary Review*
Dunmore vividly recreates ancient Roman society...with intricate
detail and tormented love, it's a must-read
*Elle*
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