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Title: Circe
Author: MILLER MADELINE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 04/04/2019
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, GUARDIAN, I PAPER, IRISH TIMES, REFINERY29, SCOTSMAN, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, TIME MAGAZINE, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, AND WASHINGTON POST
The captivating Sunday Times top 5 bestseller and New York Times number one bestseller by the Orange Prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles; `spellbinding … a thrilling tour de force of the imagination’ (Mail on Sunday)
`Fabulous’ Daily Telegraph
`Blisteringly modern’ The Times
`Bold and sensuously written’ Daily Mail
`Winning, joyous, powerfully affecting’ Observer
God. Mortal. Daughter. Monster. Saviour. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Creator. Mother. Witch.
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child – not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts. Yet a woman who stands alone will never be left in peace for long – and among her island’s guests is an unexpected visitor: the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything.
So Circe sets forth her tale, a vivid, mesmerizing epic of family rivalry, love and loss – the defiant, inextinguishable song of woman burning hot and bright through the darkness of a man’s world.
ISBN: 9781408890042
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 352
Edition: 01