Son Of Nobody

The past is never done with: always the song continues Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection of papyrus fragments at Oxford University; he seizes it. Though it means leaving his daughter and fracturing marriage back home in Canada; this is the kind of career break he desperately needs. In the depths of the Bodleian Library; Harlow discovers a lost account of the Trojan War; a glimpse into the founding of Western civilization itself. He names the epic poem The Psoad; after its protagonist; a Greek commoner identified as Psoas of Midea but known to all as 'son of nobody'. As sole translator and interpreter of the Psoad; Harlow dedicates the poem and its footnotes to his daughter; Helen. Under his gaze; the text unlocks echoes of Ancient Greece into the present day; and a personal message to his beloved child appears. Despite the three-thousand-year gap between the two; a thread hasn't frayed: the universal song of homesickness and regret; of ambition; love and grief. In this masterpiece of myth; history and domesticity; Son of Nobody explores how stories become facts; the price we pay to share them and how we live - then; now and always.