Boudicca's Daughter — Elodie Harper Coleman’s Notes® Reader’s Companion | CN-077

Explore Elodie Harper’s Boudicca’s Daughter in greater depth with this comprehensive independent Coleman’s Notes® Reader’s Companion.

Beginning amid the disastrous events surrounding Boudicca’s rebellion against Roman rule, the novel follows Solina, Harper’s fictional daughter of Boudicca, through the destruction of her former world, captivity and survival, and into a new life shaped by Rome and its empire.

This 58-page Reader’s Companion provides much more than a plot summary. It explores the novel’s characters, themes and historical setting while carefully distinguishing between the surviving evidence about Boudicca’s revolt and Harper’s imaginative reconstruction of Solina’s life.

INSIDE THIS GUIDE

• Extended Plot Summary
• Detailed Reading Guide
• 28-part Episode-by-Episode Reading Guide
• In-depth Character Studies
• Key Themes and Motifs
• Boudicca and Roman Britain — Historical Context
• Rome under Nero and the Julio-Claudian World
• Historical Timeline and Reading Context
• Setting and Material World
• Language, Style and Narrative Technique
• Eight Extended Close Readings
• Critical Perspectives
• Further Book-Club Analysis
• Fact, Silence and Invention
• Twenty Book-Club Discussion Dossiers
• 50 Reading & Discussion Questions
• Reader’s Essay and Study Focus
• Ten Key Episodes
• Twenty Key Concepts
• Quick Reference Section

Particular attention is given to survival, identity, empire, trauma, revenge, family, historical memory and the complicated relationship between personal feeling and political power.

The guide also examines one of the novel’s most fascinating questions: how can historical fiction give a voice and an imagined life to someone whom the surviving ancient sources barely record?

Ideal for book clubs, reading groups and individual readers wanting to explore the novel beyond its final page.

Format: Digital PDF download
Length: 58 pages
Product Code: CN-077
Individual Price: £6.95