The Latinist: A Novel

"Oxford University graduate student Tessa Templeton trusts her dissertation adviser, Christopher Eccles — but should she? When she learns that her mentor has betrayed her, she tries to undo the damage he has done to her career, having learned that the only person she can trust is herself. Along the way, she unearths the truth about a little-known Latin lyric poet famous for a limping meter and discovers that, in the dark world of grad school, so much depends on the right footnote. The Latinist, which twists around the Daphne and Apollo myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, culminates with a deeply satisfying blow to the treachery of academia."