Natalie Haynes

The Children of Jocasta

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When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced . . . Because that is what happened the last time, and that is why 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 must marry the king of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has alw… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5098-3616-1
EAN: 9781509836161
Produktnummer: 22231838
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.7 cm 463 g
Gewicht: 463

Über den Autor

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, which was shortlisted for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, and a non-fiction book about Ancient History, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life. She has written and presented two series of the BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience.