{"product_id":"the-children-of-jocasta-9781509836178","title":"The Children of Jocasta","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Children of Jocasta, Natalie Haynes retells the Oedipus and Antigone stories from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMy siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIsmene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41208071782606,"sku":"9781509836178","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/products\/9781509836178_1.jpg?v=1653301126","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/the-children-of-jocasta-9781509836178","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}