The release date for the English version of 'The Women of Troy' by
Pat Barker is Aug 2021. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A remarkable sequel to The Silence of the Girls, written by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy, is a bold and contemporary feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who survived it.
Now that Troy has fallen, the Greeks—including the women of Troy—are eager to return home with the spoils of an unending battle. For the Aegean, they wait for a decent breeze.
The gods are displeased, therefore it does not arrive. Because King Priam's body is unburied and desecrated, the coalition that kept the victors together is disintegrating, and they continue to live in suspended animation, encamped in the shadows of the city they destroyed. New mistrusts and rivalries sprout, and old feuds come back to bite.
Unnoticed by her captors, the former Trojan queen Briseis, who was formerly Achilles's slave and is currently Alcimus's companion, observes these events in silence. When she can, she forms friendships with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas and the stubborn Hecuba, Priam's elderly wife, all the while cunningly pursuing her route to vengeance.