Literary agent for children's books
LAURA CECIL
DIDO by Adèle Geras
Age range: young adult
While she was still trembling with the complete unexpectedness of what Aeneas had just said and done, he leaned forward a little and kissed her on the mouth. Just one swift, soft touch of his lips on hers and then he turned and walked away’.
Love can be deadly. Especially when two women, one a queen the other her young serving girl, fall for the same man.
Elissa knows she is playing with fire, but she can’t resist. Queen Dido suspects nothing, until one fateful night...Secrets are revealed, hearts are broken and as dawn breaks the tragedy unfolds.
A passionate tale of love and betrayal.
In her latest young adult novel Geras continues her unique interpretation of classical themes, showing the stories of young and ordinary people caught up in the events of the heroic poems of Homer and Virgil, as she did triumphantly in her previous books, TROY and ITHAKA.
Rights : Laura Cecil
Publishers:
UK : David Fickling Books
Turkey : Tudem
“The thoroughly contemporary feel of characters and their relations makes the central themes of love and loss entirely credible and modern.
Adèle Geras on top form.”
BOOKSELLER
“Geras’s ability to weave a touching new tale in with the well-known one is unique to modern children’s authors; Dido is a shining new jewel to her crown.”
THE TIMES
“Geras, as in her previous novels, loses none of the power and fascination of the original story; and....intensifies and grounds Dido’s tragedy through the half spoken desires, commonplace compromises, deceits and betrayals in the stories that are woven around it.”
BOOKS FOR KEEPS
“An imaginative re-telling of the classical story the night before Aeneas leaves. Adele Geras beautifully conjures up the youthfulness of love."
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