A Thousand Ships (2019)

Haynes spreads the Trojan War across women, girls and goddesses whose experiences cannot be gathered into one heroine's life. Victory and defeat produce different kinds of loss, including for people far from the battlefield. Compared with The Silence of the Girls and its concentration on captives in the Greek camp, this offers a wider survey of the war's consequences. A basic outline of the Trojan story is useful company as the perspective moves between households, cities and divine quarrels.