No Friend To This House
11 September 2025
Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
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...
Details
11 September 2025
368 pages
9781529061543
Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
Witty, gripping, ruthlessMargaret Atwood, bestselling author of The Testaments, on Stone Blind
An exceptionally powerful retelling of Medusa's story, an emotional gut punch of a novel. Haynes brilliantly pulls off the feat of seamlessly alternating humour and heartbreak, creating characters that stay with you long after the novel's end. It is a dazzling achievementElodie Harper, bestselling author of The Wolf Den Trilogy, on Stone Blind
Inventive and playful . . . [and] very funnyThe Times on Stone Blind
With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan WarMadeleine Miller, bestselling author of Circe, on A Thousand Ships