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The Women of Troy

By: Pat Barker
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Following her best-selling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.

Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.

But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester.

Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous....

©2021 Pat Barker (P)2021 Penguin Audio Ancient Fantasy Fiction Historical Fiction Magic Mythology Ancient History Ancient Greece

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The first and second book are both equally amazing I’d definitely recommend.

It’s so easy to picture the scenes in your head when these are read.

I absolutely love this

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Brilliant! Wonderful new take on the war with Troy. Seen from the view of the trajan women, their strength and resourcefulness.

Superb story telling from a woman's viewpoint.

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I am in awe of Pat Barker and in what she is doing in this series.

Read only if you have read the previous one

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I enjoyed 'The Silence of the Girls' so much I had to try 'The Silence of the Wonen'. It was better than I hoped for: excellently written, and excellently narrated.

Very, very good!

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Felt like a perfect follow up to the first book. Gives a believable voice to the women.

Great second book

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