In Aidan’s book, the narrator, Pol, suffers from a rare hormonal condition that that ages him erratically: when he was thirteen, his body aged ten years overnight, and now in his early thirties, he still has the outward appearance of a twenty-three-year-old. This is an inventive and moving debut novel about a fateful illness, a failing marriage and a 17th-century apocalyptic prophet by an ambitious new British talent and will be a discussion not to be missed.
Aidan completed his PhD at the Divinity Faculty of the University of Cambridge in 2018. During his Doctoral studies, he ran as a Green Party candidate in the 2015 General Election. He currently works as a research fellow in Theology and Environmental Justice at the Heythrop Institute in London. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the White Review and Granta magazine.
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