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A masterful fiction debut that retells the epic legend of Achilles
This powerful, passionate and beautifully crafted retelling of the epic tale of Achilles recreates Homer's fated hero in a new and vivid reality. Elizabeth Cook's mesmerising poetic voice weaves the interlocking stories of Achilles and the central figures of his legend into a many-layered exploration of achievement and loss, of choice and inescapable destiny.
Born of the sea-nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus, hidden as a girl on Skiros until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story come others - among them Hector, Helen, Penthiseleia the Amazon Queen and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience.
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About Elizabeth Cook Elizabeth Cook was born in Gibraltar in 1952 and spent her early childhood in Nigeria before moving to England. She has published poetry and short fiction as well as scholarly works on Renaissance literature, and has also written and presented for television. She was formerly a university lecturer and has edited the works of John Keats for Oxford University Press. She lives in east London.
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