She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”- Telegraph (UK) Stone Blind acts as a brilliant and compellingly readable corrective."Haynes is master of her trade. The Gorgon’s head will take on a new and powerful resonance as a symbol of the way stories can be warped by time. is a voice that feels at once bitingly (post)modern and filled with old wisdom. Neil Gaiman via Twitter The rollicking narrative voice that energises Stone Blind. Margaret Atwood via Twitter Beautiful and moving ‘Haynes is the nation’s greatest muse’ - Adam Rutherford She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories’ - Telegraph She wears her extensive learning lightly and deftly drags the Classics into the modern world’ - Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life ‘Natalie Haynes is both a witty and an erudite guide. ‘Haynes combines a wide-ranging knowledge of the original myths with a gift for compelling narrative’ - The Times ‘With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism… her thoughtful portraits will linger with you long after the book is finished’ - Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles and Circe
Praise for Natalie Haynes, the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships: Until Perseus embarks upon a quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon. She is condemned to a life of shadows and darkness. The power cannot be controlled: Medusa can look at nothing without destroying it. Writhing snakes replace her hair, and her gaze now turns any living creature to stone. When the sea god Poseidon commits an unforgivable act in the temple of Athene, the goddess takes her revenge where she can – and Medusa is changed forever. And her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know.
Growing up with her Gorgon sisters, she begins to realize that she is the only one who experiences change, the only one who can be hurt. Medusa is the sole mortal in a family of gods. 'Beautiful and moving' - Neil Gaiman via Twitter 'Witty, gripping, ruthless' - Margaret Atwood via Twitter In Stone Blind, the instant Sunday Times bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before. ** Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 **
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