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'CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH' Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire North's Songs of Penelope trilogy - an exquisite, gripping tale...

This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses—that will change the course of the world.

On the island of Ithaca, queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband Odysseus sailed to war with Troy and never returned. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace - but this is shattered with the arrival of Orestes, King of Mycenae. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, is mad. Wracked with guilt for putting his own mother to death, he grows ever more unhinged. But a king cannot be seen to be weak. To keep him safe from the ambitious men of Mycenae, his sister Elektra brings him to Ithaca to recover under the protection of Penelope.

'A gripping feminist masterpiece' Deborah Frances-White Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 One of the Guardian's and TLS's 'Best Books of 2019' In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for...

Il est temps que les femmes d'Ithaque racontent leur histoire. Le roi Ulysse est parti il y a vingt ans en guerre contre Troie, emmenant tous les hommes en âge de combattre. En son absence, son épouse Pénélope et les femmes d'Ithaque ont protégé l'île des prétendants et des rois rivaux...

Au-delà des rivages d'Ithaque, les caprices des dieux dictent les guerres des hommes. Mais sur l'île, ce sont les choix des femmes abandonnées - et de leurs déesses - qui changeront le cours du monde. Le roi Ulysse est parti depuis de nombreuses années en guerre contre Troie, emmenant tous...