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The shadow of Perseus / Claire Heywood.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF HEYW	Adult Fiction		Chester Hill .	. Available .
AF HEYW	Adult Fiction		Greenacre .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781529333701 (paperback)
Name	Heywood, Claire author.
Title	The shadow of Perseus / Claire Heywood.
Published	London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2023.
Published	©2023
Description	286 pages ; 24 cm
Summary	An imaginative and female-centred reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version his mother, Danae; his trophy, Medusa; and his wife, Andromeda but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.
Subjects	Perseus (Greek mythological character) Fiction
	Danaë (Greek mythological character) Fiction
	Medusa (Gorgon) Fiction
	Andromeda, -- Princess, daughter of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia (Mythological character) Fiction
	Mythology, Greek -- Fiction
	Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
	Heroes -- Fiction
	Women -- Fiction
Genre	Mythological fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Andromeda, -- Princess, daughter of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia (Mythological character) -- Fiction . Danaë -- (Greek mythological character) -- Fiction . Fate and fatalism -- Fiction . Heroes -- Fiction . Medusa -- (Gorgon) -- Fiction . Mythological fiction . Mythology, Greek -- Fiction . Perseus -- (Greek mythological character) -- Fiction . Women -- Fiction . Authors: Heywood, Claire .