Pat Barker: The Silence of the Girls (Book Review)

Which I picked up because a) Pat Barker (had liked her WWI trilogy), b) I'd heard it said it was the anti Madelaine Miller/Song of Achilles. (I'm good with the second half of Madeline Miller's Circe, but Song of Achilles felt like an excellent example of a terrible slash story to me.) Also that Briseis, who is the main character, is decidedly not in love with Achilles, and that the novel is very clear on that what all those warriors are doing when taking women as "prizes" is rape.

All of this turned out to be true. ( Spoilers tell a powerful story )

Not an easy read, but one that stays with you.