Ann Halam

Ann Halam is the pseudonym under which award-winning science fiction writer Gwyneth Jones writes novels for teenagers. Gwyneth was born in Manchester, studied at a local convent school and then at the University of Sussex. In the eighties she spent two years writing scripts for a TV cartoon series called The Telebugs (about three cute newshound robots and their cute robo-puppy). Since then, she has been writing (and occasionally teaching creative writing) full time. In addition to her highly-regarded science fiction novels for adults, she has written more than twenty novels for teenagers, winning the Dracula Society's Children of the Night Award for her 1995 novel, THE FEARMAN.

Life on Perseus's island of Serifos hangs in a precarious state of balance - the legacy of war - but his own routines are relaxed and calm. However, a beautiful stranger arrives and shatters the peace for everyone. Perseus is smitten, but others are suspicious, for Andromeda has a unique and potentially powerful gift. But she also has a harsh destiny to fulfil. She must die to save her people, and a stunning, word-changing discovery will die with her - unless Perseus abandons all his beliefs to confront the horror of the Medusa quest. In a mesmerising novel which combines Ann Halam's own skilful blend of magic realism with the rich otherwordly power of a favourite Greek myth, this is a story of hope and survival, and the sheer determination of two young people against all the odds.

Vivid and twisted, this is a stunning retelling of the classic Medusa myth.