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Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. Phillips nimbly creates a presentday alternative universe where belief in the true gods has been replaced by a false judeochristian ethos, and she does a particularly fine job envisioning an underworld that is neither heaven nor hell but simply eternal death. Theres artemis, goddess of hunting, now a dog walker. This is the premise for gods behaving badly by marie philips. What would the ancient gods of greece and rome do in todays 21st century world. Such deference, a holdover perhaps from the days of the hays code, is entirely lacking in marie phillipss first novel, gods behaving badly, in which the 12 major deities of ancient greece. I also cowrote the bbc radio 4 series and book warhorses of letters, the bbc radio 4 series some hay in a manger, and was one of the contributors to the collection of spoof erotic essays, fifty shelves of grey as vanessa parody.
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