The Miniaturist was also a New York Times bestseller, selling a million copies in its first year, and was adapted for television for BBC One. Her Medusa has been on an isolated island, with her two sisters and her dog as company, since she was cursed by Athena to have snakes for hair.

It seems to offer her seclusion from the confusion of daily life and the gaze and judgment of mortals and gods. Furthermore, will Medusa’s growing feeling for this young man build beyond her need for self preservation, and her sisters’ warnings, that she risks revealing her physical presence to him? I have even talked the head into a little revamp of the library so that we can display them properly!

But one day a handsome man rowed up to her shores, making her question everything she thought she wanted. Haunted by the memories of a life before everything was stolen from her, she has no choice but to make peace with her present: Medusa the Monster. Higgins seeks to reassert it here, depicting Helen of Troy sitting at her loom, weaving images of the war for which she was a pretext – “there was always an excuse for war, some symbol or stand-in. Medusa’s happy fishing life with her sisters is replaced with an isolated existence on a deserted island.

I cannot wait to own a physical copy of this book so that I can annotate and highlight all of the beautiful and empowering quotes. I’d been looking forward to this retelling of Medusa’s tale since it was announced and thankfully, Jessie Burton didn’t let me down. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. And I will whisper in the water that one must never fear the raised shield, the reflection caught in an office window, or the mirror in a bathroom.Medusa's story is one that has long captivated me and I implicitly trusted Jessie Burton to deliver her story with the sensitivity and depth of emotion her character deserved, and with an empowering spin and full female autonomy that all women deserve. while the illustrations are gorgeous and there are some parts i liked — for example: it was a really quick read — it definitely disappointed me in most places. Bronnie is so lovely with the boys and we also felt that having a man enthusing about the books set a great example.

National Book Awards Book of the Year, and Waterstones Book of the Year 2014, and sold more than 1 million copies in its first year. However, she is uncertain of how Perseus would react to her appearance (at this point she is unaware of the full weight of Athena’s curse) and speaks to him only from behind the shelter of rocks at the entrance of her cave while her sisters are away during the daytime. Her second book, The Muse, set in a dual time-frame, during the Spanish Civil War and 30 years later in 1960s London, was published in 2016. siss-iling stars for the retelling and the reimagining of one of Greek Mythology’s greatest stories. 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 .The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books.Your selection was perfect for our children and what really made the difference was your ability to engage with each child, discuss their interests and help them to choose a suitable book based on your extensive knowledge of the books you were selling. And this format is also one which I feel would reignite the wonder of more mature readers to revisit these wonderful tales.