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The Voyage Home

ISBN 
9780241568255
Format 
Trade Paperback
Recommended Price 
R380.00
Published 
October 2024
About the book: 
The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's  The Women of Troy  and  The Silence of the Girls.
 
After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle.
 
Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks – among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine – war-wife – to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death – and her own – while Ritsa is forced to bear witness to both Cassandra’s frenzies and the horrors to come.
 
Meanwhile, awaiting the fleet’s return is Queen Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnon. Heart-shattered by her husband’s choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to Troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts.
 
As one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of Agamemnon’s death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone’s fates forever.
 
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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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