Household Gods
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Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a modern young professional, proud of her legal skills but weary of childcare, of senior law partners who put the moves on her, and of her deadbeat ex-husband. Following a ghastly day of dealing with all three, she falls into bed asleep - and awakens the next morning to find herself in a different life, that of a widowed tavernkeeper in the Roman frontier town of Carnuntum around 170 A.D.
Delighted at first to be away from corrupt, sexist modern America, she quickly begins to realise that her new world is as complicated as her old one. Violence, dirt, and pain are everywhere - and yet many of the people she comes to know are as happy as those she knew in twentieth-century Los Angeles. Slavery is a commonplace, gladiators kill for sport, and drunkenness is taken for granted - but everyday people somehow manage to face life with humour and good will.No quitter, Nicole manages to adapt to her new life despite endless worry about the fate of her children "back" in the twentieth century. Then plague sweeps through Carnuntum, followed by brutal war. Amid pain and loss on a level she had never imagined, Nicole finds reserves of strength she had never known.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9780575121515
- Author: Harry Turtledove, Judith Tarr
- Pub date: 02.10.13
- RRP: $7.99
- Format: Electronic book text
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Harry Turtledove, Judith Tarr
Harry Turtledove (1949- )
Harry Turtledove was born in Los Angeles in 1949, and has a PhD in Byzantine history. He has taught ancient and medieval history at a number of universities including UCLA, and has published a translation of a ninth-century Byzantine chronicle, as well as several scholarly articles. A full-time science fiction writer since 1991, he is best known for his rigorously researched alternative history, such as the classic The Guns of the South, in which the Confederacy wins the American Civil War. Harry Turtledove is married to novelist Laura Frankos, and lives in Los Angeles. For more information see www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/turtledove_harryJudith Tarr (1955- ) Judith Tarr is an American author best known for her fantasy books. She received a Bachelor's degree in Latin and English from Mount Holyoke College in 1976 and has a Master's degree in Classics from Cambridge University, along with a Master's and a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University. She has published more than twenty widely praised novels including The Thrones of Isis, White Mare's Daughter and Queen of Swords. Tarr breeds Lipizzan horses at Dancing Horse Farm, her home in Vail, Arizona.