The Women of Troy Series

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The Silence of the Girls Publisher's summary

From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a brave and masterful retelling of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.

Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award • Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Washington Post, The Economist, Financial Times

Here is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp—concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead—as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written, filled with moments of terror and beauty, The Silence of the Girls gives voice to an extraordinary woman—and makes an ancient story new again.
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    • The Women of Troy

    • A retelling of the classic Greek myth from the author of The Silence of the Girls
    • By: Pat Barker
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Voyage Home

    • The instant Sunday Times bestseller. A new Greek myth retelling from the author of The Women of Troy
    • By: Pat Barker
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-24
    • Language: English
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