The greatest war story in literature, retold by our greatest living storyteller on war - in the voice of the forgotten woman who lived through it.
Pat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. She has published sixteen novels, including her masterful Regeneration Trilogy which includes the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road. The Silence of the Girls was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. The Women of Troy was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. The Voyage Home continues the series.
A searing twist on The Iliad... Amid the recent slew of rewritings
of the great Greek myths and classics, Barker's stands out for its
forcefulness of purpose and earthy compassion... Chilling,
powerful, audacious
*The Times*
A stunning return to form
*Observer*
Angry, thoughtful, sad, deeply humane and compulsively readable,
The Silence of the Girls shows that 36 years after her first novel
was published, Barker is a writer at the peak of her powers
*Irish Times*
Its magnificent final section can't help but make you reflect on
the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, the women throughout
history who have been told by men to forget their trauma... You are
in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers
*Evening Standard*
An assured triumph
*Sunday Times*
An important, powerful, memorable book that invites us to look
differently not only at The Iliad but at our own ways of telling
stories about the past and the present, and at how anger and hatred
play out in our societies
*Guardian*
She gives a voice to the voiceless...The Silence of the Girls is a
book that will be read in generations to come
*Daily Telegraph*
An impressive feat of literary revisionism that should be on the
Man Booker longlist... This is a story about the very real cost of
wars waged by men... Barker makes us re-think history
*Independent*
Giving voice to the voiceless, this is a gripping feat of
imagination that succeeds in being relevant today
*Woman and Home*
The most important novel based on The Iliad so far this century
*Edith Hall*
The magic of Barker's book is that the resonance of giving silenced
women a voice at the centre of the story is just as relevant
today
*Grazia*
[Pat Barker] is one of our finest modern chroniclers of war...this
magisterial novel is both a timely exploration of power, misogyny
and violence and an elegant counternarrative to one of literature's
founding conflicts
*The Guardian*
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