Unfortunately, the winds are not in their favour. Once the City falls, and the Greeks have looted it and distributed its remaining women amongst themselves they are eager to set sail for home. Amongst them is Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, and now the leader of the Myrmidons, desperate to prove himself worthy and living in the shadow of the great warrior, he sets out to kill King Priam to avenge his father. The book starts in the belly of the beast, as the Greek soldiers wait, silently inside the wooden horse. When I did finally pick up this book, in late November, I devoured it in a couple of days, of course I needn’t have worried, The Trojan Women are in safe hands as the story moves on from war to its aftermath. It was the first book I had read by the author and was so impressed by it, that when this one arrived on the 26 th of August, I was afraid to read it: would it live up to the hype I had created in my head? Did I want to spoil my imaginings of what Briseis’s life would be like once Troy falls? Can a sequel ever live up to its predecessor? (Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee ruined me!) All these questions left me feeling intimidated and delaying the inevitable. The Women of Troy is a continuation of Pat Barkers previous work, Silence of the Girls, a book I read earlier last year and the reason I pre-ordered this sequel. The Women of Troy, is the sequel to The Silence Of The Girls.

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