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Saara El-Arifi

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A magical, groundbreaking reimagining of an iconic queen, from the #1 Sunday Timesbestselling author**'An extraordinary achievement' SAMANTHA SHANNON**

'Lush world-building and lyrical prose burns brightly on every page' JENNIFER SAINT

'Sensational: Cleopatra as she is meant to be told' HANNAH KANER

YOU KNOW MY NAME.

BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW ME.

Your historians call me seductress, but I was ever in love's thrall.

Your playwrights speak of witchcraft, but my talents came from the gods themselves.

Your poets sing of my bloodlust, but I was always protecting my children.

How wilfully they refuse to concede that a woman could be powerful, strategic, divinely blessed to rule.

Death will silence me no longer.

This is not the story of how I died. But how I lived.

From one of the most remarkable and acclaimed storytellers of her generation, the #1 bestselling author of FAEBOUND and THE FINAL STRIFE, this epic and groundbreaking new novel shows us Cleopatra on her own terms.