{"product_id":"9780241568248","title":"The Voyage Home","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Pat Barker\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMyth \u0026amp; legend told as fiction\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 22 August 2024 by Penguin Books Ltd (Hamish Hamilton Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e163 x 242 x 33mm | 508g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE EXHILARATING FOLLOW-UP TO PAT BARKER'S THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLSAfter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlongside 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of Agamemnon’s death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone’s fates forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The queen of literary historical fiction, Barker is an unflinching guide for a trip across ancient Greece’ National Geographic‘In her thrilling retelling of the stories of Cassandra and Clytemnestra, Barker conjures up a world stained by the grief of mothers and daughters. Agamemnon’s palace is the stuff of nightmares, a world of suspicion and fear, plagued by the ghosts of innocents’ Paula Hawkins'You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world' GuardianLONGLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2025Instant Sunday Times bestseller, August 2024\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pat Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64839511671133,"sku":"9780241568248","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9780241568248.jpg?v=1780059037","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9780241568248","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}