The Children of Jocasta [electronic resource]
Natalie Haynes2017
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When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in
avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced . . . Because that is
what happened the last time, and that is why my siblings and I have grown up in
a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .
Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes,
an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it
be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.
Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since
the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to
feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all
that is about to change.
With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you
know it.
In Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes reimagines the Oedipus and Antigone
stories from the perspectives of two of the women...
The Children of Jocasta [electronic resource] / Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes, Author
Australia : Mantle, 2017
1 online resource (1 text file)
General / adult
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
9781760553579
English
439079
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