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![]() There’s also another myth an epic Lucas creates for Pam over a number of years. The three main characters’ youthful ritual (never properly explained, never properly remembered) brought them close to it, and thus shaped the obsession and madness that defines the whole group thereafter. This word, Greek for something like ‘full perfection’, has various meanings: in Gnosticism, it represents the divine world, and in this book it is similarly used to describe a utopian realm. ![]() Reading that description, you might imagine something like The Secret History or Joyce Carol Oates’ Beasts, but The Course of the Heart is a quite different proposition which weaves together dark fantasy and stark realism.Ĭentral to the plot of The Course of the Heart is the idea of the Pleroma. The rite doesn’t go as planned, and the resulting fallout shapes the rest of their lives. They are joined/led by an eccentric self-styled magician, Yaxley. As students, three young people – a couple, Pam and Lucas, and their friend, the narrator – take part in some sort of magical rite. It’s not that the setup is especially original. ![]() Unfortunately, however, I must break this particular cliche out again for M. ![]() That includes saying I’ve ‘never read anything like this before’. Every compliment or critique is inevitably a variation of something I’ve written in the past. ![]() I’ve written before about the difficulty of finding original things to say about books when you’ve written upwards of a thousand reviews. ![]()
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