The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

The Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker

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Published: 2019

Shortlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction

There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent – till now.

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?

Discover the greatest Greek myth of all – retold by the witness history forgot.

“Great Achilles. Brilliant Achilles, shining Achilles, godlike Achilles … How the epithets pile up. We never called him any of those things; we called him ‘the butcher’.”

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

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