Ariadne - Jennifer Saint

**The mesmerising retelling from the woman at the heart of one of Ancient Greeces most famous myths.** I absolutely adored this book and am encouraging everyone I know to buy a copy. REAL READER REVIEW. The last few pages will easily become tear soaked. I loved every minute of this book REAL READER REVIEW. A lyrical, insightful re-telling - Daily Mail. If you like Madeline Millers Circe and Song of Achilles, you will eat up Ariadne [. . .] Saint makes it a page-turner - Glamour. Exquisitely written and exceptionally moving, this is a mythical retelling to savour. - Elodie Harper, author of THE WOLF DEN.ARIADNE gives voice to the misused Princess of Crete who betrayed her father to save Theseus from the Minotaur. Relevant and revelatory. - Stylist. Ariadne, Princess of Crete and daughter of the fearsome King Minos, grows up hearing stories of gods and heroes. But beneath the golden palace something else stirs, the hoofbeats and bellows echoing from the Labyrinth below. Every year its captive, the Minotaur - Ariadnes brother - demands blood. When Theseus, Prince of Athens, arrives as a sacrifice to the beast, Ariadne sees in him her chance to escape. But helping Theseus kill the monster means betraying her family and country, and Ariadne knows only too well that drawing the attention of the mercurial gods may cost her everything. In a world where women are nothing more than the pawns of powerful men, will Ariadnes decision to risk everything for love ensure her happy ending? Or
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