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'Passionate and gripping' - Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe A powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone that casts fresh light on the women the myths overlooked. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes. My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . . Jocasta is just fifteen when she is ordered to marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. But it is her duty to produce an heir, who will alter the course of her life forever. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths, it had been the one place she felt safe. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change. With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it . . . 'A wonderful and inventive take on an ancient tale' - The Times 'Haynes's fascination with this long vanished world is evident in every line' - The Guardian 'Glorious, gripping and brutal . . . I loved it' - Victoria Derbyshire, journalist and broadcaster - Praise for Natalie Haynes: 'Witty, gripping, ruthless' - Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale, via X 'The great champion of women in Greek myth' - Daily Mail 'A fierce feminist exploration of female rage, written with wit and empathy' - Glamour
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, and Stone Blind, which was a Sunday Times bestseller. Her non-fiction book about women in Greek Myth, Pandora's Jar, was a New York Times bestseller in 2022. She was written and performed eight series of her BBC Radio 4 show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics. In 2015, she was awarded the Classical Association Prize for her work in bringing Classics to a wider audience. The Children of Jocasta is her second novel.
