Robert Harris: Pompeii: From the Sunday Times bestselling author [2009] paperback CPIC From the women who transformed

From the women who transformed stalks of flax into linen to clothe their families in nineteenth century New England to those who earn their dowries in the cotton-spinning factories of South India today

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Robert Harris: Pompeii: From the Sunday Times bestselling author [2009] paperback CPIC From the women who transformedA sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in the world the mighty Aqua Augusta has suddenly ceased to flow. Through the eyes of four characters a