No Friend To This House is the story of Medea, but not as you think you know her. From The Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes.
Medea is one of the legendary murderers of Greek myth: a witch who uses her magic powers to slay a dragon and steal the golden fleece, a woman who will kill her own children in a startling act of revenge against her husband. And before all that, a young girl who falls in love with a man who has already abandoned one pregnant wife before he arrives on Colchis.
But who is the person behind the myth? Is she a cold-blooded killer, a woman who kills her brother, her love rival, her own children, who persuades other women to kill their male relatives too? Is she in control or beyond it? And why is her treacherous husband the only person she leaves alive?
So who is she, this woman who can commit the ultimate act of anti-motherhood and somehow, impossibly, stay sane?
Praise for Natalie Haynes:
'Witty, gripping, ruthless' – Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Testaments, on Stone Blind
'Absorbing and fiercely feminist' – The Guardian on A Thousand Ships
'Wonderful and inventive' �� The Times on The Children of Jocasta
Genre: Fantasy
Medea is one of the legendary murderers of Greek myth: a witch who uses her magic powers to slay a dragon and steal the golden fleece, a woman who will kill her own children in a startling act of revenge against her husband. And before all that, a young girl who falls in love with a man who has already abandoned one pregnant wife before he arrives on Colchis.
But who is the person behind the myth? Is she a cold-blooded killer, a woman who kills her brother, her love rival, her own children, who persuades other women to kill their male relatives too? Is she in control or beyond it? And why is her treacherous husband the only person she leaves alive?
So who is she, this woman who can commit the ultimate act of anti-motherhood and somehow, impossibly, stay sane?
Praise for Natalie Haynes:
'Witty, gripping, ruthless' – Margaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Testaments, on Stone Blind
'Absorbing and fiercely feminist' – The Guardian on A Thousand Ships
'Wonderful and inventive' �� The Times on The Children of Jocasta
Genre: Fantasy
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