Circe is a book that I hesitated over for quite a while.....it sounded to serious! But I finally picked it up and by page 40 I was hooked......

Circe is the daughter of Helios (i.e. the sun!) but has not been favoured with any special skills. She grows up mostly alone and lonely. When a potential romance goes badly wrong, she uses her burgeoning witchcraft to curse her love rival.... and gets banished for eternity to a deserted island, Aiaia, as a punishment.⁣

You might think this sounds like the end of the story, but it’s only the beginning. Circe can’t leave the island but others can come up her, and they do, leading to all kinds of trouble and adventures. And Aiaia provides Circe with all the raw materials she needs to hone her witchcraft, which she will need to defend herself time and time again, as she is a woman alone, without the protection of a man.⁣ And then comes Circe’s greatest challenge and adventure; motherhood. And as her son is a demi-god, she must face the fact of his mortality......⁣

I loved this book; it was like nothing I had read before but yet I identified so much with Circe’s struggles as a mother of a willful, stubborn boy and her feelings at watching him grow up and become his own person. ⁣Miller’s writing is beautiful and poetic and engaging. And Circe is a character who you will fall in love with...⁣