The Silence of the Girls: A Novel

Synopsis

From the booker prize-winning author of the regeneration trilogy comes a brave and masterful retelling of the iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the greek camp in the final weeks of the trojan war. Shortlisted for the costa novel award • finalist for the women’s prize for fictionone of the best books of the year: npr, the washington post, the economist, financial times here is the story of the iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of briseis, trojan queen and captive of achilles.