For the Most Beautiful

If you've been gripped by Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls or caught up in the epic BBC/Netflix series 'Troy: Fall of a City', For the Most Beautiful is a must-read for you . . .Three thousand years ago a war took place that gave birth to legends - to Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector, prince of Troy. It was a war that shook the very foundations of the world. But what if there was more to this epic conflict? What if there was another, hidden tale of the Trojan War?Now is the time for the women of Troy to tell their story. Thrillingly imagined and startlingly original, For the Most Beautiful reveals the untold story of Krisayis, daughter of the Trojans' High Priest, and of Briseis, princess of Pedasus, who fight to determine the fate of a city and its people in this ancient time of mischievous gods and mythic heroes. In this novel full of passion and revenge, loyalty and betrayal, bravery and sacrifice, Emily Hauser breathes exhilarating new life into one of the greatest legends of all - in a tale that has waited millennia to be told.'Brings ancient Troy wildly, raucously, passionately alive' Manda Scott, author of Boudica

Product details

• Authors: Emily Hauser, Hauser Emily
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9781784160654
• ISBN: 978-1-78416-065-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 127 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Black Swan; Die Frauen von Troja; Die Frauen von Troja
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Myth & legend told as fiction, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales