Kaarina Parker

In the dying days of the Roman republic, a remarkable woman steps out of the shadows and beyond the boundaries imposed on her sex, driven by an unstoppable ambition. Kaarina Parker's stunning debut novel, told in the compelling voice of this brilliant woman from history, brings Fulvia and the society in which she lived vividly to life. Born into a...

'I lived forty glorious years in the heart of one of history's most powerful civilisations ... I knew men in my life who would become gods and women who deserved to. Magnificent as they all were, I am not a mere footnote in their stories. Mine is a history all its own.' Fulvia Flacca Bambula is now a wealthy young...