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Solved - Historical/Fantasy Fiction- Gods of Wine?

missjayjay

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This book was available in a high school, but I'm not sure if it's an actual children's book or just one that also appeals to young adults.

I think the title is something similar to "Gods of War" or "War of the Gods", I am almost positive the title includes the word god or gods.

The book is about a modern day woman who is just fed up with her life, and I believe after drinking some wine before bed, she ends up being transported through time into ancient Rome. She takes the place of a middle class Roman woman of two children and has a slave, and she basically just goes through the typical ancient Roman routine. I think she finally realizes how good she has it, and at some points the Roman gods of wine are talking to each other about her. It ends with her back in normal time, but that's all I really remember.

I really want to find this book, it's been probably four years or so? But I can't find anything on it anywhere, because I can't remember the title or author.

Any help would be great, thanks!
 
Household Gods by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove

Nicole Gunther-Perrin, a divorced mother and an attorney in a law firm, has had a very bad day. She makes a wish to Liber and Libera - Roman household gods on a votive plaque - to live in their simpler time. The gods grant her wish and send her back in time, into the body of Umma, a widow in Roman-occupied Austria. Retaining her memories of her 20th-century life she uses all of her wits and wisdom to negotiate such daily circumstances as public baths, haggling in the market, poor sanitation, and abuse of children and animals.
 
Me too, thank you so much!

Household Gods by Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove

Nicole Gunther-Perrin, a divorced mother and an attorney in a law firm, has had a very bad day. She makes a wish to Liber and Libera - Roman household gods on a votive plaque - to live in their simpler time. The gods grant her wish and send her back in time, into the body of Umma, a widow in Roman-occupied Austria. Retaining her memories of her 20th-century life she uses all of her wits and wisdom to negotiate such daily circumstances as public baths, haggling in the market, poor sanitation, and abuse of children and animals.
 
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