“It’s Homer meets #MeToo” – The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

"Here’s Barker on her home turf, ploughing straight into the twin horrors of war and the patriarchy, and deconstructing the cannon while she’s at it, in this feminist retelling of The Iliad. The Silence of the Girls has all the gods and gore of Homer’s Troy, but Barker’s version – a contemporary novelist’s expansion upon Euripides’ The Trojan Women – refuses to skip easily past the slavery, sexual abuse, torture and infanticide that went alongside it..." - Valerie O'Riordan reviews The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

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