Ben Kirke - Madeline Miller

Best Book of the Year by NPR, Washington Post, Buzzfeed, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle and NewsweekBest Fantasy Book of 2018, according to Goodreads readers“This compelling story will sway you like Kirke's spell.”- Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow -“In one word, mesmerizing and elegantly narrated, Me, Kirke is an ordinary and extraordinary story of women's life.”- Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is Just Something -The poets always spoke of me as a woman kneeling before the -male-hero and begging for mercy; I would add medicine to their sweet wines, I would enchant them and turn them into pigs. What to say, putting women in their place is the poets' favorite pastime; As if it wouldn't be a true story if we didn't crawl around and cry.But they are wrong, you are wrong: Witchcraft is not necessarily born of hatred, jealousy, or any other kind of evil; I cast my first spell from my love.I am Circe the Witch of Aiaie, daughter of Helios. All my life I've waite