![]() Prompt 7: A city or country name in the title. Funnily, I also read Elektra this month which also deals with the Trojan War and its aftermath, and it was just a little better than this book, so it's 4 stars from me. The women of Troy is very good as well, just not as good as the previous. I absolutely adored The Silence of the Girls, the prequel to this book. ![]() Once again faced with the chance to shape history. Once again caught up in the disputes of violent men. As if she could wake the dead.Īnd Briseis, carrying her future in her womb: the unborn child of the dead hero Achilles. Hecuba, howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore, as if she could make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades. Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over.Ĭassandra, who has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies. ![]() ![]() But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. ![]()
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