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Golden Apple TrilogySeries

This trilogy delves into the heart of the Trojan War, uncovering the hidden narratives of those often left in the background. Through passionate and original storytelling, it focuses on the strength, resilience, and complex fates of women from various walks of life. The series explores themes of passion, revenge, loyalty, and betrayal, breathing new, captivating life into ancient legends. Readers will be enthralled by a fresh perspective on a familiar myth.

For The Most Beautiful
For The Immortal
For the Winner

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  1. 1

    For The Most Beautiful

    • 496 pages
    • 18 hours of reading
    3.8(88)Add rating

    Three thousand years ago a war took place that gave birth to legends - to Achilles, the greatest of the Greeks, and Hector, prince of Troy. It was a war that shook the very foundations of the world. But what if there was more to this epic conflict? What if there was another, hidden tale of the Trojan War? Now is the time for the women of Troy to tell their story. Thrillingly imagined and startlingly original, For the Most Beautiful reveals the true story of true for the first time. The story of Krisayis, daughter of the Trojans' High Priest, and of Briseis, princess of Pedasus, who fight to determine the fate of a city and its people in this ancient time of mischievous gods and mythic heroes. In this novel full of passion and revenge, loyalty and betrayal, bravery and sacrifice, Emily Hauser breathes exhilarating new life into one of the greatest legends of all - in a tale that has waited millennia to be told. 'Brings ancient Troy wildly, raucously, passionately alive' Manda Scott, author of Boudica

    For The Most Beautiful
  2. 2

    For the Winner

    • 448 pages
    • 16 hours of reading
    3.7(30)Add rating

    In For the Winner, Emily Hauser tells the compelling story of the brave, strong and clever Atalanta as she seeks to take her rightful place in her father's life. Her many adventures with Jason and his Argonauts kept me utterly absorbed. Here is a heroine to cheer for, and a book to cherish. Margot Livesey

    For the Winner
  3. 3

    For The Immortal

    • 320 pages
    • 12 hours of reading
    3.5(26)Add rating

    'Offers a fresh and feminist take' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe Thousands of years ago, two remarkable women found themselves swept up in one of the greatest legends of all . Hauser's fresh perspective on one of the great archetypal epics, in focusing on the marginalised women's stories, makes for fascinating reading .

    For The Immortal