Her stories are told using an expansive cast of multiple POV characters and from an explicitly feminist perspective, allowing famous figures like Clytemnestra, Helen of Troy, Andromache, Penelope, Hecuba, Antigone, and Cassandra a chance to speak for themselves and to take center stage in their own stories. Author Madeline Miller is often credited with the recent surge of interest in fictional stories based on retellings and reimaginings of Greek mythology within the world of publishing, thanks to her bestselling novels Circe and The Song of Achilles.(Both of which are, by the way, excellent.) But it should also be noted that Natalie Haynes has been out here doing fantastic things in this particular sub-genre of historical fiction for just as long-and in a completely different way.
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