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The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls'Brilliant, masterful . . . Barker strips away the glittering armour of myth' Guardian 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 wif

The Voyage Home

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    A Paperback by Pat Barker

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 4/17/2025
      ISBN-13 9780241995679
      978-0241995679
      ISBN-10 0241995671
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      Book Synopsis
      The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls'Brilliant, masterful . . . Barker strips away the glittering armour of myth' Guardian 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 wif

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