Sweetbitter Song

Sweetbitter Song

Author: Rosie Hewlett Listening Length: 17h 47m
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Perfect for fans of The Song of Achilles and from the award-winning author of The Witch of Colchis comes a profoundly moving story of two women on the shores of Ithaca, in the shadows of a legendary war, who must face their own battle – one of sisterhood, survival, and a forbidden love that could destroy them both. On...

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My blood swirled in the water like crimson puffs of smoke.

I stared down into the bowl, trying to summon the energy to continue cleaning myself, to scrub those ugly remnants of my butchered hopes and dreams from my skin.

Gods forbid I should look unsightly when I was paraded before my new masters.

I wished my brother were with me. I could still hear his screams, those animalistic noises he had made while Tyndareus branded Melitta. I could still smell her burned flesh, the stink of it clogging my nostrils, making me gag. I knew my nightmares would reek of it forevermore.