Seven hundred years before Christ was born, the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, presided over the greatest empire That had ever been.
Starting as a me.
Through it all, Naqia grows in confidence.
From the humblest hut to the glorious palaces, we enter a world both foreign in its culture and familiar in its humanity.
In this story of Naqia, his favourite wife, we are caught up in the turbulent sweep of history, the treachery and the valour and the ordinary lives of those who were connected with her.
Seven hundred years before Christ was born, the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, presided over the greatest empire That had ever been