{"title":"Pat Barker","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"another-world-us-edition","title":"Another World (US Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlagued by nightmarish memories of the trenches where he saw his brother die, Nick's grandfather Gordie lays dying as Nick struggles to keep the peace in his increasingly fractious home. As Nick's suburban family loses control over their world, Nick begins to learn his grandfather's buried secrets and comes to understand the power of old wounds to leak into the present. 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She is transformed from queen to captive, from free woman to slave, awarded to the god-like warrior Achilles as a prize of war. And she's not alone. On the same day, and on many others in the course of a long and bitter war, innumerable women have been wrested from their homes and flung to the fighters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Trojan War is known as a man's story: a quarrel between men over a woman, stolen from her home and spirited across the sea. But what of the other women in this story, silenced by history? What words did they speak when alone with each other, in the laundry, at the loom, when laying out the dead?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this magnificent historical novel, Pat Barker charts one woman's journey through the chaos of the most famous war in history, as she struggles to free herself and to become the author of her own story.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePraise for Pat Barker:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Barker delves unflinchingly into \u003cstrong\u003ethe enduring mysteries of human motivation\u003c\/strong\u003e' \u003cem\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'She is not only a fine chronicler of war but of human nature' \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Barker is a writer of crispness and clarity and \u003cstrong\u003ean unflinching seeker of the germ of what it means to be human'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHerald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, \u003cstrong\u003esteadily facing the history of our world\u003c\/strong\u003e' \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264417317158,"sku":"the-silence-of-the-girls","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/ba93f1b0-0a81-454c-aad2-0f3be88d3e68.jpg?v=1701097122"},{"product_id":"the-voyage-home","title":"The Voyage Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Women of Troy\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Silence of the Girls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks – among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine – war-wife – to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death – and her own – while Ritsa is forced to bear witness to both Cassandra’s frenzies and the horrors to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, awaiting the fleet’s return is Queen Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnon. Heart-shattered by her husband’s choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to Troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of Agamemnon’s death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone’s fates forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘The queen of literary historical fiction, Barker is an unflinching guide for a trip across ancient Greece’\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘In her thrilling retelling of the stories of Cassandra and Clytemnestra, Barker conjures up a world stained by the grief of mothers and daughters. 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