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Amara's relationships are what makes the story and those with Victoria, Felix and Rufus are some of the most heartbreaking scenes i've read. Without spoilers, to know that people can use, betray, handle others in such a way is mind-blowing and so refreshing to read in terms of realism and igniting real emotions. Her complicated relationship with Felix was a highlight especially because I honestly believe that if he had agreed to free her, marry her and allow her to handle his business with reall respect, Amara would have never left him. She says this of course but the reality of that for me, really had me hating her. Bob Mortimer wins 2023 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction with The Satsuma Complex The best historical fiction holds a mirror up to the present and The Wolf Den is a triumph. Harper transports us thousands of years and thousands of miles and yet we see ourselves reflected there' Claire McGlasson, author of The Rapture Still our type on paper! Maura Higgins,Ekin-Su Cülcülolu and Arabella Chi lead the red carpet glamour as Love Island past and present attend the Beauty Awards

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Amara knows her existence in Pompeii is subject to Venus, the goddess of love. Yet finding love may prove to be the most dangerous act of all. MIC'sJosh Patterson reveals being 'battered and villainised' on the show resulted in his 'toxic and hurtful' relationship with Binky Felstead Amelia Gray Hamlin bares her abs as she strips down to tube top and thong for latest racy social media post Hugh Grant, 63, and his wife AnnaElisabet Eberstein, 40, attend the Wonka premiere ahead of his controversial role as an Oompa Loompa Rachel McAdams turns heads in a plunging ruched sheer dress at the 2023 Gotham Awards in New York City

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A plaster cast of a dog, from the House of Orpheus, Pompeii, AD 79. Around 30,000 people are believed to have died in the chaos, with bodies still being discovered to this day With Victoria, she is also matched to the tone of some of the graffiti in which she refers to herself as Victoria Victrix, or 'Victoria the conqueress'.Despite the bleak circumstances the women find themselves in, there is a thread of hope, humour and female friendship that runs through The Wolf Den. Ryan Phillippe, 49, posts rare photo with daughter Kai, 12, whom he shares with ex Alexis Knapp of Pitch Perfect fame: 'Pizza was had, Elf was watched'