The legend of The Iliad retold from the perspective of a woman- queen turned war prize, witness to history.
Pat Barker is the author of Union Street, Blow Your House Down, The Century's Daughter, The Man Who Wasn't There, the Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road), Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, and the Life Class Trilogy (Life Class, Toby's Room and Noonday). Pat Barker lives in Durham.
A searing twist on The Iliad... Amid the recent slew of
rewritings of the great Greek myths and classics, Barker's stands
out for its forcefulness of purpose and earthy compassion...
Chilling, powerful, audacious * The Times *
A stunning return to form * Observer *
Angry, thoughtful, sad, deeply humane and compulsively
readable, The Silence of the Girls shows that 36 years after
her first novel was published, Barker is a writer at the peak of
her powers * Irish Times *
Its magnificent final section can't help but make 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 *
Evening Standard *
An assured triumph * Sunday Times *
An important, powerful, memorable book that invites
us to look differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of
telling stories about the past and the present, and at how anger
and hatred play out in our societies * Guardian *
She gives a voice to the voiceless...The Silence of the Girls
is a book that will be read in generations to come * Daily
Telegraph *
An impressive feat of literary revisionism that should be on
the Man Booker longlist... This is a story about the very real cost
of wars waged by men... Barker makes us re-think history *
Independent *
Giving voice to the voiceless, this is a gripping feat of
imagination that succeeds in being relevant today * Woman and
Home *
The most important novel based on The Iliad so far this
century * Edith Hall *
The magic of Barker's book is that the resonance of giving
silenced women a voice at the centre of the story is just as
relevant today * Grazia *
'[Pat Barker] is one of our finest modern chroniclers of
war...this magisterial novel is both a timely exploration of
power, misogyny and violence and an elegant counternarrative to one
of literature's founding conflicts.' * The Guardian *
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