No Friend to This House, Natalie Haynes
No Friend to This House, Natalie Haynes
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No Friend to This House
A Novel

Author: Natalie Haynes

Narrator: Natalie Haynes

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper

Published: 03/10/2026

Synopsis

A Best Book of the Year from The ObserverNarrated by the New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes herself, this audiobook is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea.
This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has been forgotten, by everyone but me . . .Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey is filled with danger, for him and everyone he meets. But if he ever reaches the distant land he seeks, he faces almost certain death.Medea—priestess, witch, and daughter of a brutal king—has the power to save the life of a stranger. Will she betray her family and her home, and what will she demand in return?Medea and Jason seize their one chance of a life together, as the gods intend. But their love is steeped in vengeance from the beginning, and no one—not even those closest to them—will be safe.Based on the classic tragedy by Euripides, this is Medea as you've never seen her before . . .

About Natalie Haynes

Natalie Haynes is the author of eight books, including the nonfiction work Pandora’s Jar, which was a New York Times bestseller, and the novels A Thousand Ships, which was a national bestseller and short-listed for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and Stone Blind. She has written and recorded eleven series of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics for the BBC. Haynes has written for the Times, the Independent, The Guardian, and the Observer. She lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carl on September 04, 2025

No Friend To This House is Natalie Haynes’s retelling of Euripides’s Medea, narrated in her unique voice in this multifaceted tale of the Argonauts and the witch of Colchis, Medea. From the start, Haynes makes clear this is her story, not Euripides’s; she begins the tale from the moment the Argo sets......more

Goodreads review by Booksblabbering || Cait❣️ on August 11, 2025

I am a sucker for reframed and retold Mythological telling, especially Greek. This follows Jason, the captain of the Argo sent to retrieve the Golden Fleece, but really it highlights all the women he leaves behind in his wake. Like Haynes’s other books, we get interjections from a range of wonderful......more

Goodreads review by Alex on September 01, 2025

3.5 ⭐️ I struggled with my rating for this one because there were parts I really loved and others that just didn’t work for me, though I’m sure they could for other readers. When I first requested this one, it was because the premise suggested it would be a feminist Medea retelling. It definitely isn’......more

Goodreads review by Dan on September 02, 2025

Dearest mortal, one thing I should make clear from the very beginning of this twisted and sordid tale: what lies within is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the goddess-blessed Argo. This part and many others have been long forgotten, by everyone but me. Listen carefully…. Jaso......more

Goodreads review by Tamára on November 09, 2025

Natalie Haynes volta a afirmar-se como uma das vozes mais fortes da reinterpretação dos mitos clássicos. Neste romance a autora transporta-nos para o mundo clássico e para as canções/histórias contadas sobre Jasão e Argo. Mas em vez de seguir apenas os heróis, dá palco às mulheres, às vozes esquecid......more

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