NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An NPR Best Book of the Year
"Gorgeous.... 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
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of
the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its
causes and consequences--for fans of Madeline Miller.
This is the women's war, just as much as it is the men's. They have
waited long enough for their turn . . .
This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them
all . . .
In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city
engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the
Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.
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 Thousand Ships puts
the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world's
great tale ever told.
