{"product_id":"lavinia","title":"Lavinia","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. The man was famous, the fate obscure; not a bad balance.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who loves peace; she is her father's closest companion. Now of an age to wed, Lavinia's mother favours her own kinsman, King Turnus of Rutulia, handsome, heroic, everything a young girl should want. Instead, Lavinia dreams of mighty Aeneas, a man she has heard of only from a ghost of a poet, who comes to her in the gods' holy place and tells her of her future and Aeneas' past...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf she refuses to wed Turnus, Lavinia knows she will start a war - but her fate was set the moment the poet appeared to her in a dream and told her of the adventurer who fled fallen Troy, holding his son's hand and carrying his father on his back...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ursula K. Le Guin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51528333754537,"sku":"9780753827840","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780753827840.jpg?v=1794375072","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/lavinia","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}