Clytemnestra, Costanza Casati
Clytemnestra, Costanza Casati
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Clytemnestra

Author: Costanza Casati

Narrator: Olivia Vinall

Unabridged: 14 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/02/2023


Synopsis

Monarch. Mother. Murderer. Magnificent.

You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore, and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. Because this was not the first offense against you. This was not the life you ever deserved. And this will not be your undoing. Slowly, you plot.

When your husband returns in triumph, you become a woman with a choice.

Acceptance or vengeance, infamy follows both. So you bide your time and force the gods’ hands in the game of retribution. For you understood something long ago that the others never did.

If power isn’t given to you, you have to take it for yourself.

A blazing novel set in the world of ancient Greece and told through the eyes of its most notorious heroine, this is a thrilling tale of power and prophecies, of hatred, of love, and of an unforgettable queen who fiercely dealt out death to those who wronged her.

About Costanza Casati

COSTANZA CASATI was born in Texas and grew up in a village in Northern Italy, where she studied Ancient Greek, and Ancient Greek literature, under one of the country’s most rigorous academic programmes. She is a graduate of the prestigious Warwick Writing MA in the UK and has worked as a screenwriter and journalist. Her debut novel, Clytemnestra, has sold into 18 territories worldwide, and was shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Award and the Glass Bell Award. Babylonia, her second novel, was first published in the UK and was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gillian

“She will bow to no one. Her destiny will be what she wants it to be.” This book was so good! This is a beautiful and heartbreaking story about love, grief, revenge, and power. Clytemnestra is the daughter of Leda and Tyndareus, the king of Sparta. Clytemnestra marries Tantalus, the king of Maeonia w......more