Daughter of a god, wife of a king, prize of antiquity’s bloodiest war, Helen of Troy has inspired artists for millennia. With the mythical Helen narrating her own story, new life is breathed into the great Homeric tale.
Through her eyes and in her voice, we experience the young Helen’s discovery of her divine origin and her terrifying beauty. A lush, seductive novel of the legendary beauty whose face “launched a thousand ships”