![]() ![]() ‘Darkly fascinating, raw and breathtaking’ Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne And watching over them all is the goddess Aphrodite, who has plans of her own.Įach woman has a secret. ![]() Her only allies are Elektra and Helen of Troy, Menelaus’s enigmatic wife. Trapped between two mad kings, Penelope fights to keep war from Ithaca’s shores. His uncle, Menelaus, the battle-hungry king of Sparta, longs for Orestes’s throne – and if he can seize it, no one will be safe from his violent whims. Penelope knows destruction will follow in his wake as surely as the Furies circle him. Now, racked with guilt, he is slowly losing his mind. Not so long ago, the son of Agamemnon took Queen Clytemnestra’s life on Ithaca’s sands. ![]() Orestes’s hands are stained with his mother’s blood. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace – but this is shattered by the arrival of Orestes, king of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra. Many years ago, her husband, Odysseus, sailed to war with Troy and never came home. On the isle of Ithaca, Queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. ‘CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH’ Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadneįrom the author of the critically acclaimed Ithaca – A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year – comes an exquisite and gripping new tale that breathes life into ancient myth. ![]()
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