House of Odysseus'CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH' Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca comes House of Odysseus, the second novel in Claire North's Songs of Penelope trilogy an exquisite, gripping tale that breathes life into ancient myth. This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. On the island of Ithaca,

struggling with being a wife and mother

while a strong anti-British feeling is taking hold amongst the Boer farmers

It returns to the haunting ground covered in the award-winning

But even in this world

Murakami sidesteps the real and sprints for the surreal

from utilitarian hub-points to rich

Vietnam in the last days of the French

Although a year has passed

with tacit assistance from the fearsome Top Nun

words that tell a story

ambitious and

the dazzling young president arrives in Texas and Nell receives a phonecall that overturns the world as she knows it