# The Silence of the Girls

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- Authors: [Pat Barker](https://www.bookquiver.com/pat-barker)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 10 h 45 min
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Michael J. Fox
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-429-1
- Published: 2018-08-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 10 h 45 min

## Description

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, read by Kristin Atherton and Michael Fox. A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the International DUBLIN Literary Award There was a woman at the heart of the Trojan war whose voice has been silent - till now. Discover the greatest Greek myth of all - retold by the witness that history forgot . . . 'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard 'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times Briseis was a queen until her city was destroyed. Now she is slave to Achilles, the man who butchered her husband and brothers. Trapped in a world defined by men, can she survive to become the author of her own story?