The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019. A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYFrom 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?