006307821x " NATIONAL BESTSELLER With her trademark passion wit and fierce feminism Natalie Haynes gives a much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War. Madeline Miller author of Circe Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences for fans of Madeline Miller. This is the women's war just as much as it is the men's. They have waited long enough for their turn . . . This was never the story of one woman or two. It was the story of them all . . . In the middle of the night a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus to the three goddesses whose feud started it all these are the stories of the women whose lives loves and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war.