the women of troy the sunday times number one bestseller

They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them. Cassandra, who has learned not to be too attached to her own prophecies. All that beauty, all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for feral dogs to fight over. 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 TimesTroy has fallen. ‘Barker has always looked on the world with the combination of a cold eye and a sympathetic understanding.THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. ‘ The Women Of Troy’s immediate beauty is its accessibility and Barker’s precise, elegant writing’ Metro But the sombre clarity of her writing is offset by a luminous wisdom’ Sunday Times ‘Readers turn to Barker’s novels for their plain truths and clear-eyed sense of our history and creation stories. Masterful and enduringly resonant, ambitious and intimate, The Women of Troy continues Pat Barker’s extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest classical myths, following on from the critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls. Once again faced with the chance to shape history.

Once again caught up in the disputes of violent men. As if she could wake the dead.Īnd Briseis, carrying her future in her womb: the unborn child of the dead hero Achilles. Hecuba, howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore, as if she could make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades. Stubborn Amina, with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy, determined to avenge the slaughter of her king. 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.

The women of troy the sunday times number one bestseller