THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Following her bestselling critically acclaimed The Silence of
the Girls Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.
'Myth for a MeToo age. Pat Barker returns to Homer in this gory but unexpectedly uplifting
novel' Sunday Times Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return
home as victors - all they need is a good wind to lift their sails. 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. The women of Troy.
Helen - poor Helen. All that beauty all that grace - and she was just a mouldy old bone for
feral dogs to fight over. Cassandra who has learned not to be too attached to her own
prophecies. They have only ever been believed when she can get a man to deliver them. Stubborn
Amina with her gaze still fixed on the ruined towers of Troy determined to avenge the
slaughter of her king. Hecuba howling and clawing her cheeks on the silent shore as if she
could make her cries heard in the gloomy halls of Hades. As if she could wake the dead. And
Briseis carrying her future in her womb: the unborn child of the dead hero Achilles. Once
again caught up in the disputes of violent men. Once again faced with the chance to shape
history. 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 . 'Readers turn to
Barker's novels for their plain truths and clear-eyed sense of our history and creation
stories. But the sombre clarity of her writing is offset by a luminous wisdom' Sunday Times
' The Women Of Troy's immediate beauty is its accessibility and Barker's precise elegant
writing' Metro 'Barker has always looked on the world with the combination of a cold eye and
a sympathetic understanding. Her characterisation is sharp her sympathy deep' i paper
