The women of Troy
Barker, Pat, 1943-2021
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Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. Largely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naive Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge.
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Bredbury Library | Adult fiction hardback | Available | |
| Brinnington Library | Adult fiction hardback | Available | |
| Cheadle Hulme Library | Adult fiction hardback | Available | |
| Edgeley Library | Adult fiction hardback | Available | |
| Great Moor Library | Adult fiction hardback | Available | |
| Offerton Library | Adult fiction hardback | On loan - Due: 19 Feb 2026 |
Main title:
The women of Troy / Pat Barker.
Author:
Barker, Pat, 1943-, author
Work:
Imprint:
UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2021.
Collation:
306 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780241427231 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.914FICTIONF
Local class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3126285