A review by michaelontheplanet
Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault

4.0

Alexander technique: boy, this is solid, scarf-waving stuff. Picked up in the bookshop after the British Library’s curiously bloodless exhibition on the man himself, Fire From Heaven actually justifies the oft-misused descriptor epic. Battles, politicking, the Freudian bits with ophidiophile mum Olympias, and plenty of man-on-man action of all sorts. I’m signed up for the trilogy.