The Silence of the Girls: A Retelling of the Iliad from Briseis’s Perspective by Pat Barker

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A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY’Chilling, powerful, audacious’ The Times’Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers’ Evening StandardThere was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent – until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all – retold by the witness that history forgot . . . Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to 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?THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS OF MADELINE MILLER’S CIRCE AND THE SONG OF ACHILLES THIS CHRISTMAS!*Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award*Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths in The Women of Troy.; 336 pages; Published: 02/05/2019

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