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The Emperor’s Babe : From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

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Paperback 25/04/2002
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Through bustling, hustling city, its slum tenements and sumptuous villas, this book follows Zuleika the daughter of Sudanese immigrants. Married to a fat, rich absent Roman, she is stranded in luxurious neglect, until, one day, Septimus Severus, Emperor himself, comes to town, bringing with him not just love – but danger…