{"product_id":"9780008589936","title":"Aphrodite","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e'\u003c\/strong\u003eParticularly skilled in evoking the strangeness and contradictoriness of Greek myths' \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e'\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eHerc\u003c\/em\u003e, a Waterstones Best Book of the Year\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A \u003cstrong\u003ejoyful\u003c\/strong\u003e exploration of one woman's quest for home, power, identity and ultimately, freedom from fate. \u003cstrong\u003eA genuine pleasure to read\u003c\/strong\u003e!' \u003cstrong\u003eClare North, author of \u003cem\u003eIthaca\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is a \u003cstrong\u003estunningly witty\u003c\/strong\u003e tale' \u003cem\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Welcome the \u003cstrong\u003eReal Housewives of Olympus\u003c\/strong\u003e. Stunning, brilliant, witty, \u003cstrong\u003eso delicious it could only be divine' \u003c\/strong\u003eReader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e***************************************************\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I'm a liar, to begin with.' \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wasn't always a goddess, you see. My only real power was my beauty - you'll have heard. It's legendary. But that was never going to be enough for me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt took a web of lies to convince the gods of Olympus I was one of them. But I did. I was \u003cem\u003ethat\u003c\/em\u003e good. Zeus gave me a title and riches and loved me. And all he wanted in return was for me to love him back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut of course, Zeus was a tyrant. (Not entirely surprising when you're ninety per cent insecurities and ten per cent raw power.) I couldn't live at someone's mercy. Really, I had no choice. I had to take on the mightiest Olympian of all. 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