The Silence of the Girls : Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Paperback / softback

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYFrom 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?