Circe, Madeleine Miller"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning

Fatima befriends one of the women

pots en gres

and superbly characterised narrative

Before the man he's never met smiles down at him and says

not into my family

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comfortable and wary

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monsters have captivated us for millennia

dates a man named Nick and looks forward to meeting his family