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The Children of Jocasta

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24 September 2021
352 pages
9781529057133
Imprint: 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 and Circe
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.The 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, journalist and broadcaster