A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK of the 21ST CENTURY From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration Shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award there was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . . Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers Evening Standard Chilling, powerful, audacious the Times Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?