This is the first Robert Harris book I read. It started me on a reading journey that I have not regretted.

What I love about this book is the way it tells a story of immense scale and impact (eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum) with the history and well shaped cultural insights being a background to a love story and tale of Imperial values, in what is arguably the peak civilisation outside the past 200 years.

I highly recommend this book and author.