The Ancients Thrill Me - A Novel

The Ancients Thrill Me is the story of two young men full of dreams whose paths diverge markedly through time and circumstance from their shared starting point. Adam’s path soon enough leads into a landscape of self-delusion, and yet somehow the friendship of the men survives the betrayals and lies that he perpetrates on his journey - until Adam’s life becomes immutably mired in alcoholism and squalor. The Ancients shows how there is a thread that connects our youthful dreams through the stages of our lives that become our lived experience.

Readers of Karl Ove Knausgaard and Emmanuel Carrère will recognise in Ancients the flawed characters of the human condition. Readers of David Malouf’s Johnno and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road will join its journey of self-discovery and the adult awakening of its characters.