02095nam a22003137a 4500 251118b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780356516141 tbs eng North, Claire 26321 author The last song of Penelope / Claire North. London : Orbit, 2025. 388 pages ; 20 cm. Songs of Penelope novel ; bk. 3 Many years ago, Odysseus sailed to war and never returned. For twenty years his wife Penelope and the women of Ithaca have guarded the isle against suitors and rival kings. But peace cannot be kept forever, and the balance of power is about to break... A beggar has arrived at the Palace. Salt-crusted and ocean-battered, he is scorned by the suitors - but Penelope recognises in him something terrible: her husband, Odysseus, returned at last. Yet this Odysseus is no hero. By returning to the island in disguise, he is not merely plotting his revenge against the suitors - vengeance that will spark a civil war - but he's testing the loyalty of his queen. Has she been faithful to him all these years? And how much blood is Odysseus willing to shed to be sure? The song of Penelope is ending, and the song of Odysseus must ring through Ithaca's halls. But first, Penelope must use all her cunning to win a war for the fate of the island and keep her family alive, whatever the cost... Electra (Greek mythological figure) Fiction 26536 Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) Fiction 26323 Orestes, King of Argos (Mythological character) Fiction 26537 Penelope (Greek mythological character) Fiction 26322 Goddesses Greece Fiction 26538 Gods Greece Fiction 26539 Kings and rulers Fiction 25383 Queens Fiction 26540 Revenge Fiction 11490 Ithaca Island (Greece) Fiction 26324 Historical fiction 22722 Mythological fiction 26204 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-11-18 0 P-EN NOR B05629 2025-11-18 1 2025-11-18 1 5188 5188