But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has.
Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband. Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents. A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked, from Natalie Haynes, the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships and the Sunday Times bestseller Stone Blind.
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