Children of Jocasta

Children of Jocasta

EnglishPaperback / softback
Haynes Natalie
Pan Macmillan
EAN: 9781509836161
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In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes takes a fresh perspective on an ancient story, reimagining in gripping prose how the Oedipus and Antigone stories would look if the oft-overlooked female characters took centre stage. Retelling the myth to reveal a new side of an ancient story . . .

My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .

Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.

Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change.

With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it.

EAN 9781509836161
ISBN 1509836160
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Publication date May 4, 2017
Pages 352
Language English
Dimensions 234 x 153 x 25
Country United Kingdom
Readership General
Authors Haynes Natalie
Edition Air Iri OME