Penelope Haines
Författare till The Lost One: A Russian Legacy
Serier
Verk av Penelope Haines
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- New Zealand
- Bostadsorter
- Otaki, New Zealand
- Yrken
- pilot
nurse
management consultant
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
Statistik
- Verk
- 5
- Medlemmar
- 28
- Popularitet
- #471,397
- Betyg
- 3.3
- Recensioner
- 3
- ISBN
- 9
Sort of exasperated with your role in the family, even though you’re royalty, you see a man and fall immediately in love. You marry this person, ignoring that inner voice telling you, “Nope. Don’t do it. This is a bad man.”
You really should have paid attention. Your husband is a brutal, vainglorious, womanizing, and rather stupid man. In a final act of complete betrayal he murders your daughter so he can run off to war.
What do you do? Of course Clytemnestra plots a complicated and fitting revenge, killing Agamemnon in his bath. But then her remaining children must avenge their father.
Really, Ancient mythological Greece was not an easy or pleasant place to live. Author Haines does a great job bringing these horrific events to life, and making them seem not only logical but inevitable. It is quite wonderful to read an account of this dreadful story from the woman’s point of view.… (mer)