EAN: 9781509836215

NATALIE HAYNES - GEBRAUCHT A THOUSAND SHIPS - P...

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction    Powerfully told from an all-female perspective
in A Thousand Ships   classicist and author of Divine Might   Natalie Haynes retells the story
of the Trojan War - putting the women  girls and goddesses at the centre of the story.  Perfect
for fans of Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles and Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls .
'With her trademark passion  wit  and fierce feminism  Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice
to the silenced women of the Trojan War' - Madeline Miller  author of Circe    This was never
the story of one woman  or two. It was the story of them all . . .  In the middle of the night
a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of
conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.  From the Trojan women
whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks  to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on
their behalf  to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus  to the three goddesses whose feud
started it all  these are the stories of the women embroiled in the legendary war.   'A
many-layered delight' - The Guardian    'A gripping feminist masterpiece' - Deborah
Frances-White  The Guilty Feminist

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