The Memoirs Of Cleopatra Av Margaret George

<p>The mesmerizing story of Queen Cleopatra in her own words - by bestselling novelist Margaret George, author of <i>The Autobiography of Henry VIII</i> and<i> Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles</i>.<br><br> Told in the first person - from the young queen's earliest memories of her father's tenuous rule to her own reign over one of the most glittering kingdoms in the world - this is an enthralling saga of ambition and power.<br><br> It is also a tale of passion that begins when the twenty-one-year-old Cleopatra, desperate to return from exile, seeks out the one man who can help her: Julius Caesar. And it does not end until, having survived the assassination of Caesar and the defeat of the second man she loves, Marc Antony, she plots her own death . . .<br><br> 'The author's impeccable research brings a long-ago civilization thoroughly to life, and her portraits of Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony are wonderful. A spellbinding book' Barbara Taylor Bradford, book of the year in the <i>Sunday Times</i></p>