Pat Barker

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot... 'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard 'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, 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?

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019

The Silence of the Girls

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Natalie 

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But perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality? I looked across the room at Ismene and thought: Yes, you’re right, my turn now.

Men carve meaning into women's faces; messages addressed to other men.

Isn't that love's highest aim? Not the interchange of two free minds, but a single, fused identity?

he tries to pray, but prayer never comes easily to him - he's his mother's son, he knows too much about the gods

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