A Good Read

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker continues the story after The Silence of the girls.

Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of war - including the women of Troy themselves. They wait for a fair wind for the Aegean, but it doesn’t arrive because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed. As the coalition that held them together begins to unravel old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester.

Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.

I have read reviews that have described this as boring. I don't agree but .... not much happens, there isn't a plot, but I didn’t mind that, I was interested in the post-war logistics, and the lives of the women, particularly Briseis.

∼ Happy Reading∼ 

Polly x