May 28, 2020
Book Review- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Book Review- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
This was one of the Not Just the Booker Prize course reads. And I loved it. Told from the viewpoint of Briseis, the noble Trojan woman enslaved by the Greeks and the centre of the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon, the tragedies of the Trojan War are played out. This book is brilliantly written – the characters are real, alive and portrayed with wit and style. Barker has taken care to…
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