A beautiful and profound retelling ... a powerfully feminist, elegaic and original twist on this old story. The book tackles pain and trauma without flinching, but its message is ultimately one of joy and hope

Madeline Miller

Utterly transporting

Guardian Books of the Year

A beautiful and compassionate retelling that gives the serpent-headed monster of myth a powerful and haunting humanity ... Medusa's vulnerability, strength and journey of self-acceptance is one that will stay with me

Jennifer Saint

[A] beguiling, lyrical, but also relatable retelling of the myth of Medusa ... [that] reclaims her both as an ordinary teenage girl who was exploited, brutalised then punished and also as a feminist icon who refuses to be a victim when she can be a proud survivor ... Medusa is a must read for women of all ages

Red Magazine 'Best Books to Read This October'

Destined to become as much an artefact of our own age as it is an illumination of the ancient past [...] bracing and powerful

Guardian

Immerse yourself in Jessie Burton's poetic, powerful reclamation of Medusa's story

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