The Children of Jocasta: A Viscerally Atmospheric Retelling of Greek Myth

Synopsis

'passionate and gripping' – madeline miller, bestselling author of circea powerful retelling of oedipus and antigone that casts fresh light on the women the myths overlooked. From the sunday times bestselling author of stone blind, natalie haynes. My siblings and i have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents. Jocasta is just fifteen when she is ordered to marry the king of thebes, an old man she has never met. But it is her duty to produce an heir, who will alter the course of her life forever. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home.