Since he can’t do the former, he resolves to do the latter.ĭiscovering he can now speak and understand Latin, Perry befriends fellow slave Carotus and the villa owner’s daughter, Valentia. As the realisation sinks in that he’s time travelled, Perry vacillates between longing to go home and wanting to make the most of this one-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He’s mistaken for a newly arrived child slave in a grand country villa surrounded by vineyards. Perry is an eleven-year-old Australian boy holidaying with his family in southern France when he accidentally falls 1700 years through time. Anna Ciddor’s self-described research ‘obsession’, her decades-long list of non-fiction titles, and the help of her sister, Tamara Lewit-a researcher and archaeologist specialising in the Roman Empire-make her perfectly placed to pen this richly detailed and riveting middle grade time-slip tale set in Roman times.
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