{"product_id":"lavinia-1","title":"Lavinia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn exceptional combination of history and mythology, an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLike 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavinia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ursula Le Guin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44111093072129,"sku":"9780753827840","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/laviniacover_cf2405a5-4612-4818-88cc-1799a81c11bc.jpg?v=1697989553","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/lavinia-1","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}