However, there is one such book recently that not only surprised me but absolutely entranced me, to the extent that I felt the need to share it with you all. Although these books are brilliant, they are often simply a retelling of a story lost to our culture: tales of lives, and lessons, often of women and girls, that we should never have forgotten. It’s like watching a brilliant TV show that you’ve already watched before, even though you know what’s going to happen. These stories are generally a source of comfort for me: I often know the mythology that surrounds them, so they are rarely able to surprise me. Anyone who knows me knows I generally walk around with copies of such books as Madeiline Miller’s The Song of Achilles or Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls glued to my hand.
As a classics graduate and general bookworm, my current favourite literary trend is reviving stories from Greek mythology in the form of modern novels.
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