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The Children of Jocasta Natalie Haynes author 9781509836154 Books

A fascinating rewrite I have vague memories of the Sophocles play and the Anouilh and as soon as Oedipus appears I read with trepidation. I found the book well written and quite gripping especially towards the end. The Afterword is very interesting too shedding more light on the history and evolution of the myths.


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The Children of Jocasta Natalie Haynes author 9781509836154 Books Reviews

The story of Antigone and her doomed family rewritten with emotion and beauty. For lovers of Greek mythology.
Natalie Haynes retells the story of Oedipus from the point of view of his wife and mother Jocasta, and from that of one of his daughters.

Plucked from obscurity and forced into a loveless marriage with King Laius, Jocasta eventually bears a child that is torn away from her at birth due to a prophecy. In her grief she becomes a recluse inside her palace, until a good-looking stranger brings her news that her husband is dead. From that point, the seeds of the tragedy are sown.

Haynes intertwines the story of Jocasta with the story of her children, told by the youngest, Ismene. The inheritors of the family curse, they are also doomed to live in the shadows of further tragedy, which their uncle Creon provokes.

Finally Ismene and her sister Antigone learn the truth of their parents' bitter end.

Haynes' version of Oedipus the King and Antigone is highly readable and suffused with sufficient twists and departures for even those familiar with the Theban plays to be able to enjoy the story anew.
A fascinating rewrite I have vague memories of the Sophocles play and the Anouilh and as soon as Oedipus appears I read with trepidation. I found the book well written and quite gripping especially towards the end. The Afterword is very interesting too shedding more light on the history and evolution of the myths.