{"product_id":"the-voyage-home-9780241995679","title":"The Voyage Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515644940631,"sku":"9780241995679","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241995679.jpg?v=1745427521","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-voyage-home-9780241995679","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}