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The Silence of the Girls

By: Pat Barker
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Michael Fox
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, read by Kristin Atherton and Michael Fox.

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the International DUBLIN Literary Award

There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . .

'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard
'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times

Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?

©2018 Pat Barker (P)2018 Penguin Audio Alternate History Ancient Fairy Tales Fantasy Fiction Gender Studies Historical Fiction Magic Science Fiction Social Sciences Women's Fiction Greek Mythology Ancient Greece War
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loved it the story. Narrator was very good!!
Hercules is always a sad story that doesn't get old

Beautiful story

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Beautifully written. I've loved Pat Barker since 'Renegeration.' This was superlative fiction, transported to something so layered and complex yet so accessible and honest, especially relevant as the feminist perspective was so overdue, but in the hands of this author and these captivating narrators it was a masterpiece.

fantastic

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Based on Homers the Iliad with interesting story line however the narration let this down as an audio book as British accents of cockney or midlands poor whatever some slave girls were meant to be depicted as fell flat for me when the overall setting is Ancient Greece. This was unfortunate as Pat Barker is a brilliant author

Silent girls

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Wonderful performances of a brutally beautiful and eye-opening story. I could not stop listening. Just wonderful writing.

Brutally beautiful and eye-opening

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A very worthy listen - told from the female perspective. Men make war and the women and children of the conquered suffer the consequences - brutal slavery, where you become a dehumanized THING and/or brutal death. This is very intense and disturbing, but well done.

A worthy listen!

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