From the author of Mayflies an irresistible unputdownable state-of-the-nation novel - the
story of one man's epic fall from grace.May 2021. London.Campbell Flynn - art historian and
celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an appetite for
admiration and the finer things controversy and novelty he doesn't take people half as
seriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes.The second?
Milo Mangasha his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world
has experiences and ideas which excite his teacher. He also has a plan.Over the course of an
incendiary year a web of crimes and secrets and scandals will be revealed and Campbell Flynn
may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of all his privilege really
involves. But then he always knew: when his life came tumbling down it would occur in public.
