The Silence of the Girls

One sentence synopsis... Barker's retelling of the Iliad imagines how the war would be remembered today if women's stories weren't marginalized, denied credibility, or wholly dismissed. .

Read it if you liked... historical reimaginings like Madeline Miller's ‘Circe' or ‘Song of Achilles'.

Dream casting... Rose Byrne played the role of Briseis (this novel's protagonist) in the 2004 ‘Troy' but for this story's version of her I'd pick someone younger like Eliza Scanlen.