A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's #4)

by Jodi Taylor

‘Well, Akhenaten comes to power. He succeeds a powerful and popular father – not sure how much that’s got to do with his rebellion – and immediately starts chucking sacred cats amongst the pigeons.’ ‘Why?’ I hesitated. ‘I don’t think there’s any clear reason why. The fact is – he’s different. In every way. Deliberately so. It’s almost as if he said, “How can I overthrow the thinking of thousands of years, upset my people, antagonise the priesthood, and offend all the gods? Oh, I know! Let’s abolish all the gods and have just one. Oh, and let’s have a new city devoted to that one god and make people abandon the ancient city of their ancestors and live there. They won’t mind. And what else? Oh, yes! Let’s have a new style of realism in our art. Warts and all. Well, don’t just stand there, everyone – jump to it. Nations don’t just weaken themselves, you know.”’