The Silence of the Girls
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The Silence of the Girls

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A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY’Chilling, powerful, audacious’ The Times’Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers’ Evening StandardThere was a woman at the heart of the Trojan War whose voice has been silent – until now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all – retold by the witness that history forgot . . .Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is a slave to the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS OF MADELINE MILLER’S CIRCE AND THE SONG OF ACHILLES!*Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award*Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths in The Women of Troy.

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Weight 0.2497 kg
Dimensions 2.1082 × 12.8524 × 19.6342 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

336
Publisher

Year Published

2019-7-23
Imprint

Publication City/Country

United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0241983207
About The Author

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road. The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series.

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