May’s BOOK CLUB
FEMINIST RETELLING
Elektra by Jennifer Saint (£14.99, HB, Headline)
aint excels with this tale of three women whose fates are intertwined: Agamemnon’s wife Clytemnestra, their daughter Elektra, and Cassandra, princess of Troy. The story opens with Clytemnestra’s sister Helen being taken to Troy. Her husband Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon raise an army to bring her back. Told from each woman’s view, Saint breathes new life into
