Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world.
She's a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe with tangled hair
and bare feet - and she's just been married off a fat old Roman.
Life as a teenage bride is no joke but Zeeks is a born survivor. She
knows this city like the back of her hand: its slave girls and drag
queens, its shining villas and rotting slums. She knows how to get by.
Until one day she catches the eye of the most powerful man on earth,
the Roman Emperor, and her trouble really starts... Silver-tongued and
merry-eyed, this is a story in song and verse, a joyful mash-up of
today and yesterday. Kaleidoscoping distant past and vivid present, The
Emperor's Babe asks what it means to be a woman and to survive in this
thrilling, brutal, breathless world.
The Emperor's Babe - Bernardine Evaristo
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