Caledonian Road

From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable,state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.May2021. London.CampbellFlynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire ofmiddle age. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finer things,controversy and novelty, he doesn't take people half as seriously as they takethemselves. Which will prove the first of his huge mistakes.Thesecond? Milo Mangasha, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits amore precarious world, has experiences and ideas which excite his teacher. Healso has a plan.Overthe course of an incendiary year, a web of crimes and secrets and scandalswill be revealed, and Campbell Flynn may not be able to protect himself fromthe shattering exposure of all his privilege really involves. But then, healways knew: when his life came tumbling down, it would occur in public.

Andrew O'Hagan