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Also by Natalie Haynes:

The Children of Jocasta, November 2024
Paperback / e-Book
Marple, September 2023
Trade Paperback (reprint)
Stone Blind, February 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
A Thousand Ships, February 2021
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The Children of Jocasta
Natalie Haynes

Harper Perennial
November 2024
On Sale: October 22, 2024
304 pages
ISBN: 0063414007
EAN: 9780063414006
Kindle: B07B8WL26K
Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Historical

The New York Times bestselling author of Pandora's Jar and Stone Blind returns with a powerful retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked.

When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced . . . Because that is what happened the last time, and that is why 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 we’ve known it.

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