![]() ![]() 'With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War' – Madeline Miller, author of Circe Powerfully told from an all-female perspective, A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the centre of the story. ![]() ![]() Troy has fallen.įrom 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 embroiled in the legendary war. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. This was never the story of one woman, or two. In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction ![]()
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