The Voyage Home

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Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL, Hon FBA is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery.

The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker''s The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle. Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks â" among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine â" war-wife â" to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death â" and her own â" while Ritsa is forced to bear witness to both Cassandraâs frenzies and the horrors to come. Meanwhile, awaiting the fleetâs return is Queen Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnon. Heart-shattered by her husbandâs choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to Troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts. As one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of Agamemnonâs death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyoneâs fates forever. âThe queen of literary historical fiction, Barker is an unflinching guide for a trip across ancient Greeceâ National Geographic âIn her thrilling retelling of the stories of Cassandra and Clytemnestra, Barker conjures up a world stained by the grief of mothers and daughters. Agamemnonâs palace is the stuff of nightmares, a world of suspicion and fear, plagued by the ghosts of innocentsâ Paula Hawkins ''You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world'' Guardian

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