I really like Madeline Miller's 'Circe', which, although published in 2018, is as far as I know the last substantial work she has published, although her excellent short story 'Galatea', about Pygmalion's statue that came to life, published as an ebook in 2013, was re-released in hardback more recently. I hope she made enough $$$€£ from those works and her 2011 Song of Achilles to be financially secure, as I understand she has as yet been unable to complete any new works since Circe in 2018 due to a bad case of Long Covid, which I also have, but not as severely, from the way she described her symptoms in an article. In Circe, Ms Miller follows the story of a minor goddess exiled to an island on Earth called Aeaea. I imagine the Olympian gods playing a gigantic game of Scrabble over the surface of the Earth as they name its places, and finding they are left with nothing but vowels by the time they get to name Aeaea, as it is usually rendered in English. I think it is spelled Aiaia in the original Greek, as 'Circe' is really 'Kirke', the Greek alphabet not having a 'C'.
I really like Madeline Miller's 'Circe', which, although published in 2018, is as far as I know the last substantial work she has published, although her excellent short story 'Galatea', about Pygmalion's statue that came to life, published as an ebook in 2013, was re-released in hardback more recently.
I hope she made enough $$$€£ from those works and her 2011 Song of Achilles to be financially secure, as I understand she has as yet been unable to complete any new works since Circe in 2018 due to a bad case of Long Covid, which I also have, but not as severely, from the way she described her symptoms in an article.
In Circe, Ms Miller follows the story of a minor goddess exiled to an island on Earth called Aeaea. I imagine the Olympian gods playing a gigantic game of Scrabble over the surface of the Earth as they name its places, and finding they are left with nothing but vowels by the time they get to name Aeaea, as it is usually rendered in English. I think it is spelled Aiaia in the original Greek, as 'Circe' is really 'Kirke', the Greek alphabet not having a 'C'.