The Voyage Home by Pat Barker (Hamish Hamilton, 2025)
Historical Fiction
Pat Barker’s The Voyage Home (ISBN: 9780241568248, hardback), the follow up to The Silence of the Girls and The Women of Troy. Troy is in ruins, and the conquering Greeks have filled their ships with loot and enslaved Trojan women, including the prophetess Cassandra, taken by King Agamemnon as his concubine. At home is Agamemnon’s heart-broken queen, Clytemnestra, vengeful and seething after the sacrifice of her daughter. The king’s home-coming changes everyone’s fates.