House of Odysseus

Narrated by Aphrodite, this is the second of Claire North's retellings of the Odyssey from the women's side. Odysseus is still absent and Penelope holds Ithaca together by a thread.

That balance breaks when Orestes, King of Mycenae, arrives on the island — unravelling under the guilt of killing his mother — with his sister Elektra, and his uncle Menelaus follows, ready to take the throne from him by force.

Penelope, Elektra and Helen of Troy each guard a secret, and each must work in the shadows while the men fight in the open.