But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door. Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus.
None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom. 'The greatest power we women can own is that which we take in secret.'Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the isle of Ithaca. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women - and their goddesses - that will change the course of the world. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. Ithaca, Claire North ( hardback September 22) £16.99 This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before.
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