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Helen Dunmore - Counting The Stars (2nd Hand Hardback)
Synopsis
Counting the Stars is a captivating tale of forbidden love and bestselling author Helen Dunmore's tenth novel.
In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and his older married lover, Clodia Metelli, meet in secret.
Their Rome is a city of extremes. Tenants are packed into ramshackle apartment blocks while palatial villas house the magnificence of the families who control Rome. Armed street gangs clash in struggles for political power. Slaves are the eyes and ears of everything that goes on, while civilisation and violence are equals, murder is the easy option and poison the weapon of choice.
Catallus' relationship with Clodia is one of the most intense, passionate, tormented and candid in history. In love and in hate, their story exposes the beauty and terrors of Roman life in the late Republic.