No Friend to This House

The songs about Jason and the Argo tell of heroes, a voyage to the edge of the known world and a fleece of gold. Natalie Haynes turns to the part they leave out. Medea is a priestess, a witch and the daughter of a brutal king, and when a stranger arrives in her father's land facing almost certain death, she alone can keep him alive. The price is her family, her home and whatever she asks of him in return.

Drawing on the tragedy by Euripides, Haynes, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, writes a love story steeped in vengeance from its first moments, in which nobody close to the pair is safe. For anyone who likes their Greek myth clever, unsparing and told from the side of the woman the old stories blamed.