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PART THREE OF THE TROY QUARTETBringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there.Troy has fallen. After ten years of fighting and a savage final massacre, the victors quarrel over what remains and turn their minds to home.Menelaus must decide the fate of Helen, whose incomparable beauty ignited the war. And Agamemnon must return to the fury of Clytaemnestra, who has neither forgotten nor forgiven his choice to sacrifice their daughter.An engaging retelling of the whole story, neatly blending mythic archaism with modern psychodrama and satire'Mary Beard1 A PRINCE OF TROY2 THE WAR AT TROY3 THE SPOILS OF TROY4 THE RETURN FROM TROY

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‘A triumph of retelling the ancient story…a readable and freshened version that keeps one turning the pages’
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The Spoils of Troy Book 3 The Troy Quartet

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint HarperCollins
      Published 5/14/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780008371081
      978-0008371081
      ISBN-10 0008371083
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      Historical Fiction Myths & Legends

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      Book Synopsis
      PART THREE OF THE TROY QUARTETBringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour, and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there.Troy has fallen. After ten years of fighting and a savage final massacre, the victors quarrel over what remains and turn their minds to home.Menelaus must decide the fate of Helen, whose incomparable beauty ignited the war. And Agamemnon must return to the fury of Clytaemnestra, who has neither forgotten nor forgiven his choice to sacrifice their daughter.An engaging retelling of the whole story, neatly blending mythic archaism with modern psychodrama and satire'Mary Beard1 A PRINCE OF TROY2 THE WAR AT TROY3 THE SPOILS OF TROY4 THE RETURN FROM TROY

      Trade Review

      ‘An engaging retelling of the whole story, neatly blending mythic archaism with modern psychodrama and satire’
      Mary Beard, GUARDIAN

      ‘I’m awed by the web you’ve spun. Not only the beautiful complexities of it but the fine texture of the threads’
      Ted Hughes

      ‘A triumph of retelling the ancient story…a readable and freshened version that keeps one turning the pages’
      Alan Sillitoe

      ‘Wonderfully clear and dramatic’
      OBSERVER

      ‘Expertly handled, drawing on the best of this classic tale and shaping it into a riveting page-turner well-suited to our times’
      DAILY MAIL

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