Cleopatra's shadows
Holleman, Emily2016
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Abandoned by her beloved older sister Cleopatra and an indifferent father, Arsinoe, a young Egyptian princess, must fight for survival in the bloodthirsty royal court after her half-sister Berenice seizes power. But despite using her quick-wits to win Berenice's favour, Arsinoe struggles to establish herself in a uncertain new world, one that carries her from the conspiratorial dangers of the palace, to the streets of war-torn Alexandria. Meanwhile, her other sister, the usurper Berenice, has her own demons to confront - her cruel, flagging mother, a pair of fickle husbands, and the ever-present threat that her father will return from exile - as she fights to hold the throne as the first queen of Egypt in a thousand years.
Main title:
Cleopatra's shadows / Emily Holleman.
Author:
Holleman, Emily, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Sphere, 2016.London : Sphere, 2016.
Collation:
419 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
ISBN:
9780751560176 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTION
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2321134