{"product_id":"9780008643324","title":"The Palace of Eros","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  De Robertis, Caro \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 17 July 2025 by HarperCollins Publishers (The Borough Press) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 24 | 218g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 GOLDEN POPPY OCTAVIA E. BUTLER AWARD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A brilliant and luminous writer’ Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘Riveting, sublime, magical, and wildly subversive’ Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  'A natural storyteller' Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Theirs was a love that defied the gods…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Beautiful, headstrong Psyche has captured the eye of every suitor – but also the jealous gaze of Aphrodite. When she is tied to a rock to be sacrificed to a ‘monstrous husband’, no monster arrives: instead, she is spirited away by Aphrodite’s daughter Eros.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Eros, goddess of desire, can change gender at will. In her hidden palace, she visits Psyche under a cloak of darkness, unable to reveal her face. As they discover new pleasures together, Psyche is tempted to break her vow not to look…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gloriously anarchic and seductive, Caro De Robertis’ gender-fluid retelling of this classic myth is a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  GLOWING READER REVIEWS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  ‘A beautiful story about the power of autonomy’ ??????????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Heart-wrenching, hard-hitting, beautifully written, sumptuous, poetic, romantic, and (because Eros is the goddess of desire) utterly scorching in places’ ??????????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A gorgeous retelling, and one I will no doubt read again! ??????????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Overall, stunning prose, incredible chemistry, gorgeous characters, just a beauty of a retelling!’ ??????????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I cannot tell you how much I loved this, there will never be enough words to describe how much I enjoyed the experience of reading this (and believe me there were many tears involved)’ ??????????\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Palace of Eros was a Sunday Times bestseller w\/c 19\/08\/24\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55462120554871,"sku":"9780008643324","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9780008643324.jpg?v=1752833009","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.pro\/products\/9780008643324","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}