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The Children of Jocasta

byNatalie Haynes

Genres: Historical fiction Fiction Feminism Feminist Icons Women in Science and Tech Feminism in the Developing World

Who is this book for? Readers interested in feminist retellings of classic myths and historical fiction.

Topics FamilyIdentityPowerSurvivalBetrayalJustice

MoodMelancholic, Reflective

Female protagonist

RomanceMajor Subplot

ViolenceMild

A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked, from Natalie Haynes, the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships and the Sunday Times bestseller Stone Blind. My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . . Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change. With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it. 'Haynes balances a fresh take on the material . . . giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene.' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe.

Language

Published on

29/04/2021

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781529057133

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