THE WOMEN OF TROY by Pat Barker
★★★★☆
Doubleday, 2021
Set in the liminal days following the Trojan War, The Women of Troy follows Briseis, who the reader may have met in this novel’s precursor, The Silence of the Girls. Briseis begins that story as a free married woman in Troy and ends up a captive and slave of Achilles, the Greek fighter to whom she was given as a war prize when her city was sacked. Though Pat Barker begins The Women of Troy right where the last book left off, the sequel reads comfortably as a standalone. The two novels together, however, form a fuller picture of the life of Briseis.
You can read my full review HERE on BookBrowse and a piece I wrote about Cassandra of Troy HERE.
pace, amore, libri 