A Thousand Ships: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
May 2019 · Pan Macmillan
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, in A Thousand Ships, classicist and author of Divine Might, Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War – putting the women, girls and goddesses at the centre of the story.
For fans of Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls.
'With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War' – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .
In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.
From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women embroiled in the legendary war.
'A many-layered delight' – The Guardian
'A gripping feminist masterpiece' – Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist
*Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, in A Thousand Ships, classicist and author of Divine Might, Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War – putting the women, girls and goddesses at the centre of the story.
For fans of Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls.
'With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War' – Madeline Miller, author of Circe
This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .
In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.
From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women embroiled in the legendary war.
'A many-layered delight' – The Guardian
'A gripping feminist masterpiece' – Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist
*Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
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About the author
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta, and Stone Blind, which was a Sunday Times bestseller in 2022. Her non-fiction book about women in Greek Myth, Pandora's Jar, was a New York Times bestseller in 2022. She has written and performed eight series of her BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience. A Thousand Ships is her third novel.
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