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Herc
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 12 hrs
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Summary
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
Waterstones best book of the year 2023
'A remarkable feat of storytelling' Rosie Hewlett
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right?
Wrong.
This is the story of everyone else:
Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere)
Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends)
Megara: Herc’s wife (She’ll tell you about their marriage)
Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc’s labours (He never asked for the job)
His friends, his enemies, his wives, his children, his lovers, his rivals, his gods, his victims.
It’s time to hear their stories.
Herc gives voice to the silenced characters, in this feminist, queer (and sometimes shocking) retelling of classic Hercules myth.
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Critic reviews
‘Alternately hilarious and shocking, this is an astonishingly vivid retelling of the story of Hercules, and these are not the Greek myths I learned in school.’ Jodi Taylor, author of Just One Damned Thing After Another
‘A brilliant debut! Rogerson has produced a fresh and totally original retelling of the Hercules myth. For the first time, long-silent characters from the hero’s story are given a voice. They provide a sparkling new perspective on the club-wielding, all-daring son of Zeus. A Herculean triumph of creative writing... Finally, a Hercules for the twenty-first century!’ Alex Rowson, author of The Young Alexander
‘A rollicking ride through Greek mythology, Herc tells the story of the famous hero through his impact on the people around him. By turns quippy, hilarious, and shocking.’ Luna McNamara, author of Psyche and Eros
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- Rattus
- 29-10-23
So charming!
I wasn't sure this would be for me (a different vibe from favourites like Circe, Clytemnestra, Stone Blind etc), but I have adored it and am sad to have finished it. It has so many wonderful characters (with some amazing narration) bought to life in a colourful and sympathetic and clever way, I cried, I gasped and I laughed so many times. I hope the author writes another book ♡
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- miss B.
- 06-08-24
DNF
Writing feels forced and childlike - I can see it’s an attempt to differentiate between the narrators but it’s not done well enough. The younger characters made me cringe. The modern language use was not for me either
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