The Children of Jocasta
24 September 2021Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked, from Natalie Haynes, the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships and the Sunday Times bestseller Stone Blind.
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...
Details
24 September 2021352 pages
9781529057133Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A passionate and gripping account of a famously dysfunctional family. Haynes balances a fresh take on the material with a deep love for her sources, wearing her scholarship with grace, and giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene.Madeline Miller, Women's Prize winning author of The Song of Achilles
Haynes’s fascination with this long vanished world is evident in every line . . . Her Thebes... is vividly captured: a place of hard light and sharp shadows, dust, fountains and dry heat.Guardian
Natalie Haynes takes on Sophocles in her vivid and affecting second novelFiction to look out for in 2017, Observer
Glorious, gripping and brutal . . . I loved itVictoria Derbyshire
