A short-listed title for the Women’s Fiction Prize, A Thousand Ships recasts Homer’s famous Iliad from the perspective of the many women caught up in its events. From long-suffering Penelope to the Amazonian warriors who fought on Achilles behalf, this is not just the Homeric epics from “a woman’s perspective” but a truly feminine epic that seeks to understand the lives of women in the midst of great events.

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