There are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy...The greatest war story in literature, The Illiad, retold by our greatest living storyteller on war - in the voice of the forgotten woman who lived through it. The thousands of female slaves in the soldiers' camp - in the laundry, at the loom, laying out the dead? Briseis is one of their number - and she will be our witness to history. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award 2018.