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Bernardine Evaristos tale of forbidden love in bustling thirdcentury London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry history and fiction Feisty precocious Zuleika a restless teenage bride of a rich Roman businessman craves passion and excitement She wanders through his villa bored or sneaks out to see her old friends seeking an outlet for her creativity Then she begins an affair with the emperor Septimus Severus remembered to history as the African Emperor and she knows her life will never be the same Streetwise seductive and lyrical The Emperors Babe is a glittering fiction with a heroine of ancient times for the modern age the Times

Contains mature themes