A retelling of the events surrounding the Trojan War written from the perspective of not just one or two but many of the women who had a role to play in the war and its aftermath – and going beyond the Iliad, the Aeneid and the Oresteia to tell the stories the men didn’t tell.įrom Penthesilea, the Amazon queen, to Cassandra the prophet from Thetis, the sea nymph and mother of Achilles, to Gaia, the personification of Mother Earth from Iphigenia, cruelly sacrificed on what should have been her wedding day, to Creusa, who wakes in the night to find the city of Troy in flames – just think of a woman from Greek mythology and she is probably here, in this book! This is the book I had expected Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to be. A war does not ignore half the people whose lives it touches. “Just as I promised him: this was never the story of one woman, or two.
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