The Silence of the Girls

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019

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Pub Date 02 May 2019 | Archive Date 21 Aug 2019

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Description

The greatest war story in literature, retold by our greatest living storyteller on war - in the voice of the forgotten woman who lived through it.


Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his.


No one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy, the end of this long and bitter war. This is the start of The Iliad: the most famous war story ever told. The next ten weeks will be a story of male power, male ego, male violence. But what of the women? The thousands of female slaves in the soldiers' camp - in the laundry, at the loom, laying out the dead? Briseis is one of their number - and she will be our witness to history.


The greatest war story in literature, retold by our greatest living storyteller on war - in the voice of the forgotten woman who lived through it.


Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered...


Advance Praise

Quite the most incredible thing I’ve read this year… For me, this is Pat Barker’s Handmaid’s Tale moment.’ 
Sam Baker

 

‘Superb. It is as beautifully written as it is brutal in describing the blood-soaked horrors of war.’ 
The Times


‘ If this doesn’t make every serious literary prize shortlist I’ll be very surprised.’ 
The Bookseller


Quite the most incredible thing I’ve read this year… For me, this is Pat Barker’s Handmaid’s Tale moment.’ 
Sam Baker

 

‘Superb. It is as beautifully written as it is brutal in describing the...


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ISBN 9780241983201
PRICE £8.99 (GBP)
PAGES 336

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