Circe

Circe is the daughter of Helios, god of the sun — too powerful to be fully human, too strange to be fully divine, possessed of a gift for witchcraft that she discovered by accident and that will define her long, solitary life on the island of Aeaea. Madeline Miller’s novel takes one of Greek mythology’s most vivid minor characters and gives her the interior life, the development, and the psychological completeness that the original myths deny her — transforming a witch into a woman, and a woman into one of the most fully realised characters in contemporary fiction.

Circe is the kind of novel that demonstrates what literary fiction can do with mythological material when it is treated with genuine seriousness and genuine craft: a story that feels both ancient and completely contemporary, both faithfully mythological and entirely original.

Essential for anyone who loves Greek mythology, literary historical fiction, or simply beautifully written novels. Published by Bloomsbury.