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THE LAST SONG OF PENELOPE
By: Claire North
Redhook
June 2024
On Sale: June 4, 2024
400 pages
ISBN: 0316444103
EAN: 9780316444101
Kindle: B0CK8BTW75
Hardcover / e-Book
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The third book in award-winning author Claire North's Songs of Penelope Trilogy, a "powerful, fresh, and unfliching" reimagining (Jennifer Saint) that breathes life into a ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. Many years ago, Odysseus sailed to war and never returned. For twenty years his wife Penelope and the women of Ithaca have guarded the isle against suitors and rival kings. But peace cannot be kept forever, and the balance of power is about to break . . . A beggar has arrived at the Palace. Salt-crusted and ocean-battered, he is scorned by the suitors - but Penelope recognizes in him something terrible: her husband, Odysseus, returned at last. Yet this Odysseus is no hero. By returning to the island in disguise, he is not merely plotting his revenge against the suitors - vengeance that will spark a civil war - but he's testing the loyalty of his queen. Has she been faithful to him all these years? And how much blood is Odysseus willing to shed to be sure? The song of Penelope is ending, and the song of Odysseus must ring through Ithaca's halls. But first, Penelope must use all her cunning to win a war for the fate of the island and keep her family alive, whatever the cost...
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