Book guide
The Voyage Home
Cassandra and Ritsa leave ruined Troy for Greece, where victory’s spoils give way to prophecy, vengeance and fear.
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About The Voyage Home
The war is over, Troy is in ruins, and the victors are sailing home with their prizes. Among them are Cassandra, cursed prophetess of Troy, and Ritsa, the enslaved healer forced to serve her unpredictable mistress on the voyage to Mycenae.But homecoming offers no peace. Agamemnon returns to a palace haunted by old crimes and to a wife, Clytemnestra, whose grief over the sacrifice of their daughter has hardened into something far more dangerous. As Cassandra’s warnings go unheard and Ritsa struggles simply to survive, the triumph of the Greeks begins to curdle into dread. Fierce, intimate, and unflinching, The Voyage Home continues Pat Barker’s acclaimed reimagining of the Trojan War through the lives of women history tried to silence. This powerful final volume of the Women of Troy trilogy turns myth into a story of captivity, revenge, survival, and the brutal aftermath of war.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Series
Women of Troy · Book 3 of 3
Content warnings
- slavery
- rape
- child death
- war
- murder
- violence
- death
- grief
- sexual assault
