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The Women of Troy
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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The Women of Troy
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Publisher's Summary
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Following her best-selling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.
Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.
But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester.
Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous....
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- Alan Coulthard
- 25-05-2023
Engaging perspective
Listened to this after book 1 of the trilogy. It really draws you in. Great characters and great perspective. A little surprised when parts are retold in the series they are cut and paste. But enjoyable nevertheless. Now disappointed to have to wait so long for book 3!
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- Shelley
- 22-10-2021
Great story.
Good to read from a different perspective. The narrator however, was somewhat annoying in parts. Made me cringe more than a couple of times. Still worth a listen.
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- Amy Tuite
- 04-01-2023
Excellent book
Excellent book. Pat Barker never fails to have exciting characters. Nice to have a female perspective.
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- Lesley Jolly
- 25-05-2023
Interesting and engaging
Love Pat Barker’s books and particularly loved these two books set in Ancient Greece. I learned so much while being entertained.
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- pip
- 08-07-2024
Intimate and enthralling
I loved this book and the narration was perfect - a brutal,frightening, intimate window into the lives of these women and the men who controlled their lives -only one thing I would take issue with- small issue but important I feel - Achilles’ companion Patroclus looms large in both this audio book and in Silence of the Girls (another outstanding book) but the narrators’s pronunciation of such a pivotal character was completely wrong..it is PatROClus (rhymes with lock) - perhaps pedantic to mention it but as a student of Ancient Greek myths I found the repeated mispronunciation thru the two books quite irritating - had he been a minor character I would have overlooked it but Patroclus is anything but in these two books and in the life of Achilles - thanks
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