num_pages: 272
description: Bernardine Evaristo’s tale of forbidden love in bustling third-century London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry, history, and fiction. Feisty, precocious Zuleika, daughter of Sudanese immigrants-made-good and restless teenage bride of a rich Roman businessman, craves passion and excitement. When she begins an affair with the emperor, Septimius Severus, she knows her life will never be the same. Streetwise, seductive, and lyrical, with a lively, affecting heroine, The Emperor’s Babe is a strikingly imaginative historical novel-in-verse.
language: English
title: The Emperor's Babe
titlecomplete: The Emperor's Babe
genres: Fiction, Historical, Poetry, British Literature, Womens, Romance, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3303
publisher: Penguin Books