I don't know how a memoir managed to feel like a modern day Evelyn Waugh novel-- starting in a Victorian graveyard, the dark academia feel of cobblestone streets through colleges in Cambridge, to a post-graduate trip through South America, to the pine forests of Sweden-- but it did. It reads so much like Brideshead Revisited or the Secret History that it was even more of a pleasure to read. Seán is an incredible writer and his prose is so beautiful. I can't wait to read his poetry collection now, because this memoir is stunning.

Thank you to penguinpress for reaching out and sending an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review. This book is beautiful.