Ithaca

Seventeen years have passed since King Odysseus departed Ithaca for the Trojan War, taking with him every able-bodied man. On the island, the abandoned women, led by Odysseus's wife, Penelope, have been left to govern and survive. Penelope, who was barely a woman when she married, finds her position increasingly precarious as speculation grows that her husband is dead. Suitors, eager to claim Odysseus's vacant throne and the kingdom's power, begin to arrive, threatening to plunge Ithaca into a bloody civil war. Narrated in the arresting voice of the goddess Hera, Claire North's 'Ithaca' reimagines the classic myth from the perspective of the women left behind. It's a story of female agency, secret power, and the defiant choices made by Penelope and the other women of Ithaca as they navigate a world dictated by the whims of gods and the ruthless ambitions of men, striving to forge their own destinies amidst uncertainty and peril.