The Persian Boy : A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic QL1 encourages readers to learn something

encourages readers to learn something new while still managing to have a chuckle

This is a novel for fans of Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

and exciting with the vulnerable and bewildering

and all that remains is a voice asking a question Ellen can’t answer but can’t get out of her mind

and disappointed parents

The Persian Boy : A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic QL1 encourages readers to learn somethingALEXANDER THE GREAT #2 I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a king. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it. Bagoas, abducted as a boy and sold as a eunuch, has been transported to the heart of the Persian court as courtesan to King Darius. But when the Macedon army conquers his homeland, Bagoas finds freedom at the hands of their golden young commander, whose name