{"product_id":"palace-of-eros","title":"Palace of Eros","description":"\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 \u003ch2\u003eTheirs was a love that defied the gods...\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeautiful, 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\u003eEros, 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\u003eGloriously anarchic and seductive, Caro De Robertis' gender-fluid retelling of this classic myth is a masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGLOWING 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":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Palace of Eros","offer_id":46209421869253,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-00-864332-4.jpg?v=1778563012","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/palace-of-eros","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}