Лучшие произведения Натали Хейнс

Огромная флотилия собралась в гавани Авлиды, чтобы отплыть к берегам Трои: тысяча боевых судов с греческими воинами на борту. Греки жаждут крови троянцев, они готовы на все, чтобы вернуть похищенную Парисом Елену домой, к законному мужу Менелаю. Затевается кровавая война, которая не пощадит никого. Но если мужчины знают, за что сражаются, женщины обречены на горькую участь: их, униженных и безропотных, по мужской прихоти могут превратить в рабынь, заморить голодом или принести в жертву безжалостным богам… А сколькие потеряют мужей, сыновей, любимых!

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. In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes takes a fresh perspective on an ancient story, reimagining in gripping prose how the Oedipus and Antigone stories would look if the oft-overlooked female characters took centre stage. Retelling the myth to reveal a new side of an ancient story.

*** Shortlisted for the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year Award 2014 ***
When you open up, who will you let in?
Alex Morris has lost everything:her relationship, her career and her faith in the future. Moving to Edinburgh to escape her demons, Alex takes a job teaching at a Pupil Referral Unit. It's a place for kids whose behaviour is so extreme that they cannot be taught in a normal