{"product_id":"copy-of-the-women-of-troy","title":"The Women of Troy (Women of Troy #2)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFollowing her bestselling, critically acclaimed \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/silence-of-the-girls\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Silence of the Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTroy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLargely unnoticed by her squabbling captors, Briseis remains in the Greek encampment. She forges alliances where she can - with young, dangerously naive Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, with Calchus, the disgraced priest - and begins to see the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pat Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42929058349313,"sku":"9780241988336","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-1629.png?v=1744641548","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/copy-of-the-women-of-troy","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}