The Silence of the Girls [Hamish Hamilton]

A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century. Shorlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award. Booker-winning novelist Pat Barker imagines the untold story of the women at the heart of historys greatest epic. There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent — till now... Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story? Discover the greatest Greek myth of all — retold by the witness history forgot. Makes you reflect on the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers.