SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author
of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the
mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer’s Odyssey
Madeline Miller is the author of The Song of Achilles, which won
the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012, was shortlisted for the
Stonewall Writer of the Year 2012, was an instant New York Times
bestseller, and was translated into twenty-five languages. Madeline
holds an MA in Classics from Brown University, and she taught
Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students for over a
decade. She has also studied at the University of Chicago’s
Committee on Social Thought, and at Yale School of Drama, where she
focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. Her
essays have appeared in publications including the Guardian, Wall
Street Journal, Lapham’s Quarterly and NPR.org. She lives outside
Philadelphia.
madelinemiller.com
Circe gives us a feminist slant on the Odyssey … Miller makes these
age-old texts thrum with contemporary relevance … An airy delight,
a novel to be gobbled greedily in a single sitting
*Observer*
Enough magic, enchantment, voyages and wonders to satisfy the most
jaded sword-and-sorcery palate. Miller approaches Odysseus’s story
from Circe’s point of view, richly evoking her protagonist’s
overlapping identities as goddess, witch, lover and mother
*Guardian, Books of the Year*
Circe back as superwoman … Homer’s witch get a kickass modern
makeover… Miller’s Me Too-era, kickass portrait of a woman trying
to defy the men and Fates arrayed against her is enchanting…
Blisteringly modern
*The Times*
In a thrilling tour de force of imagination, Miller makes her
otherworldly heroine a complex, sympathetic figure for whom we
cheer throughout. Circe is a truly spellbinding novel, the
mesmerising shimmer of ancient magic rising from it like a heat
haze
*Mail on Sunday*
A brilliantly strange work of mythic science fiction, as
effortlessly expressive within the palaces of gods as it is about
the world below … Superb … This is both a fabulous novel and a
fascinating retelling; the best compliment, perhaps, that any myth
could hope for
*Daily Telegraph*
A triumph
*The Times, Books of the Year*
Circe is poised to become the literary sensation of the summer, as
much for the quality of its writing as its timeliness
*Sunday Times Magazine*
This year’s novels were filled with the angry clamour of women’s
voices: ignored, idealistic or excitingly ambivalent. Madeline
Miller reflected the mood for feminist revisionism with her lissom
follow-up Circe, which casts the witch goddess in the Odyssey not
as a bit player in a man’s epic but as the star of her own show
*Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year*
It was a big year for creative retelling of myth and pre-modern
literature; a favourite was Madeline Miller's Circe, a distinctive,
lyrical novel about power, agency and reponsibility, from the point
of view of this crafty, much-misunderstood goddess
*Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year*
The writing is lovely, the tone assured, and the touch just
right
*Independent, Books of the Year*
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