Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths(91)

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Praise for Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes


A Waterstone’s Best Book of the Year

“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”

—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale

“Natalie Haynes is both a witty and an erudite guide. She wears her extensive learning lightly and deftly drags the classics into the modern world. I loved it.”

—Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life

“Natalie Haynes is beyond brilliant. Pandora’s Jar is a treasure box of classical delights. Never has ancient misogyny been presented with so much wit and style.”

—Amanda Foreman, author of The World Made by Women

“Natalie Haynes is [Britain’s] muse.”

—Adam Rutherford, author of How to Argue With a Racist

“With references to Beyoncé, Star Trek, Ray Harryhausen . . . the most enjoyable book about Greek myths you will ever read, absolutely brimming with subversive enthusiasm.”

—Mark Haddon, author of The Porpoise and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Witty, erudite, and subversive, this takes the women of Greek myth—the women who are sidelined, vilified, misunderstood, or ignored—and puts them center stage.”

—Samantha Ellis, author of How to Be a Heroine and Take Courage

UK Praise

“Putting women center stage in an enjoyable, witty look at the ways in which their stories have been changed over time. . . . Part of the project of this hugely lively, fun, yet serious, book is to unpeel the accretions that have affixed themselves over time, like barnacles on a shipwreck, to the women of Greek myth, from Pandora to Helen of Troy via Phaedra and Medea. . . . A hugely enjoyable and witty book, which will appeal to admirers of novels such as Madeline Miller’s Circe, Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, and Haynes’s own fiction.”

—The Guardian (London)

“Impassioned and informed. . . . When Haynes gets down to retelling the stories . . . and teasing out their distortions and elisions, the book flies.”

—Sunday Times (London)