She wears her extensive learning lightly and deftly drags the Classics into the modern world’ – Kate Atkinson ‘Haynes is master of her trade. Natalie Haynes Stone Blind: A Novel Hardcover Februby Natalie Haynes (Author) 959 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 23.49 23 Used from 18.33 36 New from 19.31 1 Collectible from 100. PRAISE FOR NATALIE HAYNES: ‘With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism? her thoughtful portraits will linger with you long after the book is finished’ – Madeline Miller ‘Haynes combines a wide-ranging knowledge of the original myths with a gift for compelling narrative’ – The Times ‘Natalie Haynes is both a witty and an erudite guide. In Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes – the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships – brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before. 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. In Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes retells the story of Medusa, one of the three Gorgon sisters from Greek mythology, who could turn someone to stone by simply looking at them. She has spoken on the modern relevance of the classical world on three continents, from Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. 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. Her novel about Medusa, Stone Blind, was published in Sep 2022 and Margaret Atwood liked it. Medusa is the sole mortal in a family of gods.

‘Witty, gripping, ruthless’ – Margaret Atwood via Twitter ‘Beautiful and moving’ – Neil Gaiman via Twitter

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