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The children of Jocasta : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

The children of Jocasta : a novel / Natalie Haynes.

Haynes, Natalie, (author.).

Summary:

When you have grown up as I have, there is no security in not knowing things, in avoiding the ugliest truths because they can't be faced ... Because that is what happened the last time, and that is why my siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents ... Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband. Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change. With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063418301
  • Physical Description: 284 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Harper Perennial edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Pan Macmillan."--Title page verso.
Subject: Antigone (Mythological character) > Fiction.
Jocasta (Greek mythology) > Fiction.
Ismene (Greek mythology) > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Arranged marriage > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Siblings > Fiction.
Kings and rulers > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Mythological fiction.

Available copies

  • 2 of 4 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Mackenzie Public Library. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Mackenzie Public Library HAY (Text) 35192000533319 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Gibsons Public Library FIC HAYN (Text) 30886001139134 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Smithers Public Library F HAY (Text) 35101011106106 Adult Fiction Volume hold Checked out 2024-12-05
Tumbler Ridge Public Library AF HAYNE (Text) TRL40063 Adult Fiction Volume hold In process -


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