Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king. They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over.Ĭassandra, who has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies. But the wind has vanished, the seas becalmed by vengeful gods, and so the warriors remain in limbo - camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, kept company by the women they stole from it. They can return home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails.
Pat Barker returns to Homer in this gory but unexpectedly uplifting novel' Sunday Times Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.
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