Leto Bundle, The

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When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto. On the run, in a far-off era of civil strife, Leto gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves, survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander, stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works as a maid in a war-torn city. She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege. As the novel sweeps from mythological times and the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe and into the present day, Leto reappears in different guises. Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singer, and begins to search for her son.

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Marina Warner is a prize-winning novelist and cultural historian, whose works include From the Beast to the Blonde, Managing Monsters (the 1994 Reith Lectures), Joan of Arc, Alone of All Her Sex, Monuments and Maidens, The Lost Father (shortlisted for the Booker), Indigo, and, most recently, No Go The Bogeyman.