![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By relentlessly spelling out the original myth’s grislier implications, Barker transformed a supernatural tale of wartime heroism into an ultra-realistic hellscape of female subjugation.Īmid near-unanimous critical approval, a rare note of dissent was struck by the author and classicist Natalie Haynes, whose stealthily territorial Spectator review marked down Barker for her “clunky anachronisms” Haynes, it turned out, had her own feminist reboot of the Iliad (2019’s A Thousand Ships) in the works. Pat Barker’s previous novel, The Silence of the Girls, retold the Iliad from the point of view of one of its minor characters, Briseis, a Trojan captive squabbled over by the Greek invaders who are Homer’s principal focus. ![]()
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