2022/138: Cleopatra's Heir — Gillian Bradshaw

2022/138: Cleopatra's Heir — Gillian Bradshaw

“Where did you acquire a conscience?” asked Octavian. “It was bred out of your mother’s line long ago.” [p. 415]

I decided to read this whilst I was in Egyptian mode, following Cleopatra's Daughter: I was surprised to find that it also resonated strongly with A Confusion of Princes. Indeed, it has pretty much the same plot as the latter -- though a very different setting, and a different emotional landscape. (Both, it seems, owe a plot-debt to Kipling's Captains Courageous, which I haven't read.)

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