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Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She appears on BBC Radio 4 as a presenter and she is an arts reviewer on Saturday Review and Front Row. She judged the 2012 Orange Prize and the 2013 Man Booker Prize. Her first non-fiction book, The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, was published in 2010. Among many other favourable reviews, The Financial Times suggested ‘you shouldn’t read AC Grayling’s The Good Book without reading The Ancient Guide first.’ Natalie was also a stand-up comedian for 12 years, and was the first woman ever to be nominated for the prestigious Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She retired in 2009.

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Title:

The Children of Jocasta (MP3)

Written by:

Natalie Haynes 

Read by:

Kristin Atherton 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

9 hours 15 minutes 

MP3 size:

390 MB 

Published:

May 28 2018 

Available Date:

May 28 2018 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781509890545 

Genres:

Fiction; Historical; Historical Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

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A stunning reimagining of the Oedipus and Antigone stories told from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked.

In The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes retells the Oedipus and Antigone myths to reveal a new side of an ancient story ... My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents ... Jocasta is just 15 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.

'A wonderful and inventive take on an ancient tale.'
The Times

'Haynes is master of her trade, crafting perfect sentences and believable characters who speak and think in delicately nuanced language.'
The Telegraph

'Haynes’s fascination with this long vanished world is evident in every line ... Her Thebes ... is vividly captured: a place of hard light and sharp shadows, dust, fountains and dry heat.'
The Guardian