Massacre at Mycenae
DAISY DUNN
The Voyage Home
By Pat Barker
Hamish Hamilton £20
‘Men begin and end their lives as helpless lumps of flesh in the hands of women, and all the years between -power, success, wealth, fame, even victory in war – are merely a doomed attempt at escape.’
In a sentence, Pat Barker skewers every last achievement of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, who led the Greek army to victory over Troy in Homer’s Iliad.
is the dramatic sequel and , Barker’s bestselling novels inspired by the Trojan War.