by Helen Dunmore · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141015033
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«Counting the Stars» is the historical novel by Helen Dunmore, published by Penguin UK in paperback (368 pages, in English).
In the Roman summer, the poet Catullus and Clodia Metelli, a married woman older than him, meet in secret. Clodia is the Lesbia of his most passionate poems, but she may not be entirely faithful to him. As their relationship swings between love and jealousy, the Rome of Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar seethes with political violence, conspiracies and poisonings.
It is Helen Dunmore's tenth novel, an author also of poetry and children's literature, originally published in 2008.
For readers of historical fiction and romances set in ancient Rome, with a plot of forbidden passion, jealousy and political intrigue.
Helen Dunmore FRSL was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer.
