The Children of Jocasta
- Author Natalie Haynes
- Narrator Kristin Atherton
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 9 hours and 15 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Historical fiction, Myths and Legends.
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What to expect
In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes retells the Oedipus and Antigone stories from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked.
My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .
Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.
Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. 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.
Critics Review
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Natalie Haynes takes on Sophocles in her vivid and affecting second novel
Observer -
Glorious, gripping and brutal . . . I loved it
Victoria Derbyshire -
New life is breathed into a powerful ancient story through Natalie Haynes’s clever and vivid story telling.
Martha Kearney -
Nearly every page of Natalie Haynes’s The Children of Jocasta could stand alone as poetry. This is a visceral, engrossing, and meticulously-crafted reimagining of two of the most important stories of all time. A truly remarkable feat
Dr Amanda Foreman -
In this gripping novel, Haynes takes us to the breaking heart of one epically dysfunctional family and makes heroines of those previously doomed to be spectators of their own tragedy
Damian Barr, author of Maggie & Me -
Haynes is master of her trade, crafting perfect sentences and believable characters who speak and think in delicately nuanced language. [She] succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories to show how remarkably little basic human relationships and emotions have changed
Telegraph
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