Ancient World My Life and Times

All her life, Helen has been looked at, desired, remembered. And blamed.But rarely has she been heard.Now, in old age, well beyond the courts of Sparta and Troy and the men who made a battlefield out of her choices and her name, Helen tells the story of her own life.Not as a prize.Not as a legend.Not as a woman blamed for a war.But as a girl who learned too early that great beauty can come at a great cost. And as a queen who was forced into choices that others later called fate. And as a survivor with memory, wit, regret, and a sharp eye for the lies that other people prefer to call history.From her youth in Sparta to her middle age in the ruins of Troy, and beyond, My Life ands Times gives Helen back the one thing legend has denied her: her own voice.Candid, intelligent, darkly humorous and deeply human, this novel re-imagines Helen not merely as "the face that launched a thousand ships," but as a woman who lived through the consequences of being made into a symbol.For readers of Circe, A Thousand Ships, The Silence of the Girls, The Song of Achilles and The Women of Troy, this is a fresh, character-driven re-imagining of the ancient world through the eyes of one of mythology's most misunderstood women.