**A small hardback edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller** In Ancient Greece, a skil. Galatea: The instant Sunday Times bestseller (Hardback)įrom the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion. THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, I PAPER, SUNDAY EXPRESS, IRISH TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, AMAZON, AUDIBLE, BUZZFEED, REFINERY 29, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, SEATTLE TIMES, TIME MAGAZINE, NEWSWEEK, PEOPLE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, KIRKUS, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND GOODREADS Read more ISBN So Circe sets forth her tale, a vivid, mesmerizing epic of family rivalry, love and loss - the defiant, inextinguishable song of woman burning hot and bright through the darkness of a man's world. Yet a woman who stands alone will never be left in peace for long - and among her island's guests is an unexpected visitor: the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything. When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is. The international Number One bestseller from the author of The Song of Achilles, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Woman.

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