The Voyage Home

The follow-up to Pat Barker''s Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROYbr>Continuing the story of the captured Trojan women as they set sail for Mycenae with the victorious Greeks, this new novel centres on the fate of Cassandra -- daughter of King Priam, priestess of Apollo, and a prophet condemned never to be heeded. (When she refuses to have sex with Apollo, after he has kissed her, granting her the gift of true prophecy, he spits in her mouth to make sure she will never be believed.)br>Psychologically complex and dangerously driven, Cassandra''s arrival in Mycenae will set in motion a bloody train of events, drawing in King Agamemnon, his wife Clytemnestra and daughter Electra. Agamemnon''s triumphant return from Troy is far from the celebration he imagined, and the fate of the Trojan women as uncertain as they had feared.>

About the author

Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her late thirties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road. The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series.

Product details

• Authors: Pat Barker, Barker Pat
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780241568248
• ISBN: 978-0-241-56824-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Historical / Ancient, Ancient Greece, War & combat fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Love and relationships