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The Penelopiad

The Penelopiad

Author(s): Margaret Atwood

Location(s): Greece

Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

Era(s): Ancient Greece

Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband’s return.

Now Penelope wanders the underworld, spinning a different kind of thread: her own side of the story – a tale of lust, greed and murder.

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