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The Silence of the Girls

By: Pat Barker
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Michael Fox
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, read by Kristin Atherton and Michael Fox.

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the International DUBLIN Literary Award

There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . .

'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard
'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times

Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?

©2018 Pat Barker (P)2018 Penguin Audio Ancient Fantasy Fiction Gender Studies Historical Fiction Magic Science Fiction Social Sciences Women's Fiction Thought-Provoking Greek Mythology Ancient Greece War

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What a wonderful take on a well known story. Beautifully read. I really enjoyed the gritty reality of this tale, and could visualise how it must have been for the women of Troy. Highly recommend this book.

Simply marvellous

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book having had only the flimsiest knowledge of the story of Helen and Troy . And it is an original idea to tell it from the viewpoint of the women.
The narration was very good and I was gripped through out .

Excellent.

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I really enjoyed this new viewpoint, sometimes hard to listen to the brutality, but certainly added a human angle to the stories.

Brilliant and brutal story

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Both gripping and tender. Beautifully written and beautifully read. I thoroughly enjoyed in just two days.

Wonderful

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This is an extraordinary retelling of the Iliad. Seen through the eyes of the women captured during the Trojan war, its fascinating and disturbing in equal measure. It was spoilt for me by the the reading of Achilles part which is done badly by someone who sounds like he went to Eton and Sandhurst, not an accent I hear as heroic at all. But buy it for the story, its gripping.

Slightly spoiled by Michael Fox!

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