<p><b>** Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 **<br><br>In <i>Stone Blind, </i>the instant <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller, Natalie Haynes brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before.<br><br>'Witty, gripping, ruthless' - Margaret Atwood via Twitter<br>'Beautiful and moving' - Neil Gaiman via Twitter</b><br><br><i>'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, our strength. They fear us, so they call us monsters.’</i><br><br>Medusa is the sole mortal in a family of gods. Growing up with her Gorgon sisters, she begins to realize that she is the only one who experiences change, the only one who can be hurt. And her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know.<br><br>When the sea god Poseidon commits an unforgivable act in the temple of Athene, the goddess takes her
