The Silence of the Girls: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Silence of girls by Pat Barker, read by Kristin Atherton and Michael Fox.

A Guardian Best Publication from the 21st Century

Through the Booker Prize-winning writer of Regeneration and one of our greatest contemporary writers on war comes a re-imagining of the very most famous conflict in literature – the legendary Trojan War.

The fantastic city of Troy is under siege as Greek heroes Achilles and Agamemnon wage bloody war more than a stolen woman. In the Greek camp, about The Silence of the Girls: Shortlisted for the Women’s Award for Fiction 2019 another woman is normally watching and waiting: Briseis. She was a queen of the property until Achilles sacked her town and murdered her spouse and sons. Right now she is Achilles’ concubine: a award of battle.

Briseis is just one among a large number of ladies backstage in this battle – the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the ladies who lay out the deceased – all of them voiceless ever sold. But, though no-one knows it however, they are just ten weeks away from the death of Achilles and nov Troy, an end to this lengthy and bitter issue. Briseis will see it all – and she’ll bear witness.