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A ” playful post-modernist puzzle” indeed ( quoted by The Telegraph) but one which left many of us irritated.  Perhaps if we had given up diligently trying to read it (a) to a deadline and (b) to make sense of it, we might have enjoyed the puzzle a little more.

Despite the story being a well-known path (Homer’s Iliad), Barker manages to create some dramatic tension from the get go, and conveys the sense of sisterhood behind the enslaved women, albeit with a caste system all too obvious. But by the end, why had she lost a few enthusiastic readers?

A couple of weeks after the book is closed and I’m sure many of you are still thinking about it (well, those of you who haven’t burned it to cut down on your gas bills anyway).

(PS. just in case you’re wondering, 17% gave it a terrible score, 35% okay, and 48% good or great)