The Women of Troy by Pat Barker Paperback Book 9780241988336

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 mythsMyth for a MeToo age Pat Barker returns to Homer in this gory but unexpectedly uplifting novel Sunday TimesTroy has fallen The Greeks have won their bitter war They can return home as victors all they need is a good wind to lift their sails 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 itThe women of TroyHelen poor Helen All that beauty all that grace and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight overCassandra who has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver themStubborn Amina with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy determined to avenge the slaughter of her kingHecuba howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore as if she could make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades As if she could wake the deadAnd Briseis carrying her future in her womb...