The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls The third book in her acclaimed series reimagining the Iliad story from the perspective of the Trojan women, which began with The Silence of the Girls. Continuing the story of the captured Trojan women as they set sail for Mycenae with the victorious Greeks, The Voyage Home centres on the fate of Cassandra ? daughter of King Priam, priestess of Apollo, and a prophet condemned never to be believed. (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.) 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...
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