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"This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are victorious.
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- Author
- Natalie Haynes
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- Mantle, HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing, Harpercollins
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781509836192
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Natalie haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta and A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020. Her non-fiction book about women in Greek myth, Pandora's Jar, was a New York Times bestseller in 2022. She has written and performed eight series of her BBC Radio 4 show Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015 she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience. Source: Book flap on Stone Blind
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