With The Voyage Home, Booker-prize winning author Pat Barker continues her compelling series of novels telling the stories of women during the Trojan war, first in The Silence of the Girls, followed by Women of Troy. She joins us to talk about all three books, and her approach to reimagining the fateful drama of Agamemnon’s return home from Troy through the eyes of the captive Trojan women he brings with him, including the clairvoyant princess, Cassandra.

Waiting for Agamemnon in Mycenae is his wife Clytemnestra, who cannot forgive him for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia to the gods ten years earlier, to enable the Greek fleet to sail to Troy. As Cassandra foretells, Clytemnestra is resolved to settle the score.

‘Barker’s vision of a world shaped by violence, a key theme in all her fiction, is equal to the tragic grandeur of ancient myth, and her insistence that ordinary people’s sufferings be given equal weight with the woes of the mighty gives it a contemporary edge.’ – Kirkus review

Pat Barker will be interviewed by arts journalist and broadcaster, Paula Shields.