2020 Shortlist Readings: Maggie O’Farrell and Natalie Haynes
The Women’s Prize Trust is delighted to present the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction and our first ever fully digital...
In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker.
This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. . .
In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known will turn to ash . . .
The devastating consequences of the fall of Troy stretch from Mount Olympus to Mount Ida, from the citadel of Troy to the distant Greek islands, and across oceans and sky in between. These are the stories of the women embroiled in that legendary war and its terrible aftermath, as well as the feud and the fatal decisions that started it all. . .
Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, A Thousand Ships gives voices to the women, girls and goddesses who, for so long, have been silent.
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Maggie O'Farrell
Bernardine Evaristo
Natalie Haynes
Angie Cruz
Hilary Mantel
Jenny Offill
Natalie Haynes
Candice Carty-Williams
Hilary Mantel
Ann Patchett
Anne Enright
Luan Goldie
Deepa Anappara
Jing-Jing Lee
Jenny Offill
Claire Lombardo
Angie Cruz
Edna O'Brien
Maggie O'Farrell
Jacqueline Woodson
Bernardine Evaristo
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Barbara Kingsolver
Ruth Ozeki
Susanna Clarke
Maggie O'Farrell
Tayari Jones
Kamila Shamsie
Naomi Alderman
Lisa McInerney
Ali Smith
Eimear McBride
A.M. Homes
Madeline Miller
Téa Obreht
Barbara Kingsolver
Marilynne Robinson
Rose Tremain
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lionel Shriver
Andrea Levy
Valerie Martin
Ann Patchett
Kate Grenville
Linda Grant
Suzanne Berne
Carol Shields
Anne Michaels
Helen Dunmore
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