Taking her lead from the likes of Pat Barker and Madeline Miller, Higgins’s Greek Myths: A New Retelling is narrated by female characters. Like Voya ges in the Underworld of Orpheus Black, this is an ideal book to read, know, cherish and gift.What is relatively new is the way in which female mythological characters are now being placed at the centre of narratives in which they’ve traditionally been peripheral. Bookwagon loves and recommends Medusa highly. These are so sympathetic in their form and colouring and perspective. What’s more, her storytelling is elevated even further by Olivia Lomenech Gill’s luscious, emotional painted illustrations. However what is this quest? What’s more, how does it connect to ‘Merina’? 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? It seems as though Jessie Burton entangles us like writhing serpents in this captivating retelling of the classic myth. It seems he’s been set a quest in order to release his mother, Danaë from the intentions of Polydectes. Meanwhile, he unburdens himself of his plight. However his attractiongrows so that she risks and reveals more and more. Who is he? What’s more, what does he want? Thereafter, Medusa’s curiosity overwhelms her so that she risks making his acquaintance, while keeping her face hidden.
However everything changes when a young sailor moors his boat upon the island.
It seems to offer her seclusion from the confusion of daily life and the gaze and judgment of mortals and gods. (Bloomsbury)- hardback Medusa has found safety in the secluded island to which she’s been banished by Athena. Jessie Burton, illustrated by Olivia Lomenech Gill
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