Launch, In Convo and Live Signing with Natalie Haynes.

Natalie Haynes - the rock star classicist, nation’s great muse, Transmission Prize winner and Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships – is LIVE on the Salon Digital Stage to launch her extraordinary new book, STONE BLIND and to bring the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before...

'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.’

Medusa is the only mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her sisters, she quickly realizes that she is the only one who gets older, experiences change, feels weakness. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know.

When the sea god, Poseidon, commits an unforgivable act in her sacred temple the goddess, Athene, takes her revenge on an innocent - and Medusa’s life is changed forever. Appalled by her own reflection: snakes have replaced her hair and she realises that her gaze can now turn any living creature to stone. Medusa can no longer look upon anyone she loves without destroying them,, and so condemns herself to a life lived in shadow and solitude to limit her murderous rage. That is, until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon . . .

This is the story of how a young woman became a monster. And how she was never really a monster at all.

So please join us on 12th September at 8pm to launch Natalie’s new book STONE BLIND and to celebrate this reimagining of Medusa as Natalie brings her back into the light.

Natalie will be in conversation with Salon Lodon's Helen Bagnall and questions are most definitely welcome.

Want to be part of this great, digital celebration of Natalie’s work? Come along, book on and we will also be offering a LIVE signing of Natalie’s book for anyone who has bought the book from us.

Book on the Salon for £7 or get the book and the livestream (and a watch back function) for just £22: STONE BLIND: MEDUSA'S STORY. Or become a member for £45 and let us curate a whole year of ideas - and watch whenever you like.