· The following is excerpted from Natalie Haynes' latest novel, A Thousand Ships, a retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences. Haynes is the author of six books and has written for the Times, the Independent, the Guardian, and the Observer. She lives in London. · 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. A woman’s epic, powerfully imbued with new life, A /5. A woman’s epic, powerfully imbued with new life, A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world’s great tale ever told.
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes our book club read for September Our Inspire Online Book Club discusses the book in this Zoom Chat with Michelle Dun. In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes UK Publication: July Reviewed by: Book Worm Rating: [★★★] This ARC was provided by Pan Macmillan (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review. One word review - Epic Synopsis from Goodreads: From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess.
A woman's epic, powerfully imbued with new life, A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world's great tale ever told. H omer’s Iliad, as Natalie Haynes notes in the afterword to A Thousand Ships, is rightly regarded as “one of the great foundational texts on war and warriors, men and masculinity”. Natalie Haynes is a writer, broadcaster, and classicist. She was once a stand-up comic, but retired when she realised she preferred tragedy to comedy. She has published three novels, The Amber Fury (The Furies - US) in , The Children of Jocasta () and A Thousand Ships (), which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
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