The Women of Troy

The Women of TroyCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780241988336 Format: B format paperback Year: 2022 Publisher: Penguin UK Description: Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods are offended the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied and so the victors remain in uneasy limbo,

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780241988336
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2022
Publisher: Penguin UK


Description:
Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls




Troy has fallen and the Greek victors are primed to return home, loaded with spoils. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.




But the wind does not come. The gods are offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in uneasy limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed. The coalition that held them together begins to fray, as old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester.




Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, erstwhile queen Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, rebellious Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and she begins to see the path to revenge...