Under the Covers: Natalie Haynes (In person)
Ella Berthoud brings her illuminating Under the Covers series of talks to The London Library for the first time, with acclaimed novelist, classicist, broadcaster and comedian, Natalie Haynes.
Natalie Haynes is, as the Washington Post put it, ‘a rock star mythologist’. Her books delve into antiquity, often giving voice to the women who inhabit the dark, patriarchal world of classical mythology. Her latest novel is Stone Blind, the story of Medusa, sole mortal in a family of Gorgons whose destiny is changed forever when the gods condemn her to a life of shadow, her hair transformed into writhing snakes, her every glance a force for destruction.
Putting herself on the metaphorical couch, Haynes speaks to Ella Berthoud, bibliotherapist and co-author of The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies, about the novel, the books that have made and inspired her throughout her life and, crucially, her bibliotherapeutic analysis and prescription.
Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of The Amber Fury, The Children of Jocasta, and A Thousand Ships, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020. Her non-fiction book about women in Greek Myth, Pandora’s Jar, was a New York Times Bestseller in 2022.
Ella Berthoud is a bibliotherapist, artist and co-author of The Novel Cure: An A-Z of Literary Remedies. She has been prescribing literary cures to readers everywhere for many years.
Natalie Haynes' Stone Blind and Ella Berthoud's The Novel Cure are available to buy from our partner bookshop Hatchards.
N.B. This event will take place in person at The London Library. Please see our Event Access and COVID Guidelines before you arrive. Doors (and the bar) open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start.
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