Natalie Haynes

Priestess, witch, daughter of a brutal king: Medea is the greatest tragic heroine of the classical world. ‘Rock star mythologist’ (Washington Post) Natalie Haynes tells her story.

In novels, non-fiction, and stand-up, Natalie Haynes has brought the world of Greek mythology alive with wonder and humanity. Now the author of Stone Blind and Pandora’s Jar returns to How To Academy with an extraordinary and vivid feminist reimagining of the myth of Medea.
This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo.

This part of his quest has been forgotten, by everyone but me . . . Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey is filled with danger, for him and everyone he meets. But if he ever reaches the distant land he seeks, he faces almost certain death.

Medea – priestess, witch, and daughter of a brutal king – has the power to save the life of a stranger. Will she betray her family and her home, and what will she demand in return? Medea and Jason seize their one chance of a life together, as the gods intend. But their love is steeped in vengeance from the beginning, and no one – not even those closest to them – will be safe.

‘Haynes is the modern embodiment of the best of Homer’ Radio Times

‘Muse, sorceress, high priestess, Haynes is all of these, but above all she is the consummate storyteller.’ Adam Rutherford

‘Natalie Haynes is a once-in-a-generation storyteller, and No Friend to This House is her masterpiece.’ Dr Amanda Foreman

‘This book is about many things: the true nature of heroism, ancient magic, loyalty an family, but, most of all, it is a tapestry of choices dictated by sorrow, spite and survival. Another masterpiece from Haynes.’ Costanza Casati