The Song of Achilles (Paperback)

'Extraordinary ... As great a retelling of Homer's epic Iliad as you will find.' - The Daily Mail 

'A captivating retelling ... It's a hard book to put down.' - Donna Tartt, The Times 

'A masterful re-telling of The Iliad, but looking at the hidden stories and the shadows beneath' - Kate Mosse, The Sunday Express

'A more than worthy winner - original, passionate, inventive and uplifting.' - Joanna Trollope, chair of the judges for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012

'Only the finest of historical novelists are able to adequately convey the sheer strangeness and otherness of the past, particularly the ancient past ... Remarkably fresh.' - The Times

'Miller's prose is more poetic than almost any translation of Homer ... Deeply affecting.' - The Observer

'Not least of Miller's achievements is to reanimate this vision of the divine in prose that is simultaneously modern and true to its source.' - Tom Holland, The New Statesman 

'Page-turning ... Nothing strikes a false note in her intricately created world.' - The Guardian 

'Extraordinary ... As great a retelling of Homer's epic Iliad as you will find.' - The Daily Mail 

'Miller has combined scholarship with imagination to turn the most familiar war epic into a fresh, emotionally riveting and sexy page-turner.' - The Independent

'I loved Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles - a tender story of love between men and the pressure of living up to the masculine ideal.' - Jenni Murray, The Daily Telegraph