{"product_id":"the-silence-of-the-girls","title":"The Silence of the Girls","description":"                                            The greatest war story in literature, retold by our greatest living storyteller on war - in the voice of the forgotten woman who lived through it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles- famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy, the end of this long and bitter war. This is the start of \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e- the most famous war story ever told. The next ten weeks will be a story of male power, male ego, male violence. But what of the women? The thousands of female slaves in the soldiers' camp - in the laundry, at the loom, laying out the dead? Briseis is one of their number - and she will be our witness to history.\u003cbr\u003ePat Barker was born in Yorkshire and began her literary career in her forties, when she took a short writing course taught by Angela Carter. Encouraged by Carter to continue writing, she sent her fiction out. Thirty-five years later, she has published sixteen novels, including her masterful \u003ci\u003eRegeneration\u003c\/i\u003e Trilogy, been made a CBE for services to literature, and won the UK's highest literary honour, the Booker Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer last novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, began the story of Briseis, the forgotten woman at the heart of one of the most famous war epics ever told. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the Gordon Burn Prize, and won an Independent Bookshop Award 2019. \u003ci\u003eThe Women of Troy\u003c\/i\u003e continues that story. Pat Barker lives in Durham.\r\n                                        ","brand":"The Silence of the Girls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42283389157567,"sku":"9780241983201","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/products\/9780241983201.jpg?v=1679020872","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/the-silence-of-the-girls","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}