![]() Barker captures the sense of an army no longer at war and desperate to get home. The novel covers the period while the Greeks are waiting for a good wind to take them back to Greece and ends as the women are boarding the ships that will take them away from Troy. In The Women of Troy, a sequel to The Silence of the Girls, Barker returns to the theme of war or rather to the effects of war. The characters in her Life Class Trilogy ( Life Class, Toby’s Room, and Noonday) are extremely sympathetic, and her Regeneration Trilogy is masterful in its understanding of the psychological effects of war. On the whole, I enjoy Pat Barker’s novels, and I still find her first novel Union Street vying with some of her others to be classified as her best. ![]() I’m not sure exactly how I would categorize my anticipation of reading The Women of Troy other than to say I approached the novel with some apprehension. ![]()
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