Memoirs of a Bitch

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The bitch. That's what the crew call me. The bitch. They say it behind my back. But I can hear them. My name's Helen, I was born in Sparta, but I went away for love. They used to say I was the most beautiful woman in the world. The minstrels are already making up stories about how little I've won and how much I've lost. Lying tales. They weren't there, after all. But I was. From her childhood in Sparta, through the turbulent years of her marriage, and of course her disappearance with Paris and its consequences, Helen of Troy tells her own story. In a lyrical and musical style, Helen sheds her legendary persona and walks from the page as a real woman of flesh and blood; the archetype of all the women who, throughout history, have followed their hearts, forsaking wealth and power.

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Francesca Petrizzo is nineteen. She is on her way to university to study Classics and is hoping to spend a year of her degree in the UK on an exchange - which could be very handy. This is her first novel, but she plans to be a writer and whenever she isn't socialising, she's reading and writing.