From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man's epic fall from grace.

Campbell Flynn, art historian and celebrity intellectual, is embarking onthe ripeness of midlife. Fuelled by an appetite for admiration and the finerthings - and for controversy and novelty - he doesn't take people half asseriously as they take themselves. Which will prove the first of his hugemistakes. The second? Milo Manghasa, his beguiling and provocative student. Milo inhabits a more precarious world, and has experiences and ideas thatexcite his professor. He also has a plan. Over the course of an incendiaryyear, a web of crimes, secrets and scandals will be revealed, and CampbellFlynn may not be able to protect himself from the shattering exposure of hisprivilege and his connections. But then, he always knew: when his life cametumbling down, it would occur in public.