In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy
engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict
between the Greeks and the Trojans are over, and the Greeks are
victorious. Over the next few hours, the only life she has ever known
will turn to ash.
This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s, and the poet
will look upon their pain — the pain of the women who have always been
relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men, survivors of men,
slaves of men — and he will tell it, or he will tell nothing at all.
They have waited long enough for their turn ...
This week's book is A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes and we'll not be meeting at The Fletcher Moss on William Street in Didsbury but will be meeting online — contact us for details.