The Daily Mail recently chose The Song of Achilles for its Christmas Historical Fiction Pick.  Critic Kathy Stevenson calls it, “One of the most extraordinary books I’ve read this year” and “as great an epic retelling of Homer’s Iliad as you will find.”  She ends the review by saying:

“The tragedy of Achilles’s hubris and death in the battle for Troy is so poetically heartrending that I confess, dear reader, I wept.”

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