So begins Kate Thompson’s Down Among the Gods, the story of two lonely people who meet at an adult education class. Jessie Parker has just turned forty. Between the recent death of her mother and the local library’s burning down, she feels utterly alone and lost. Patrick Robinson, a journalist with artistic tendencies, is also searching for something. With the gods looking down upon them, Jessie and Patrick begin dating. Soon, they find themselves deeply in love, but caught up in the struggles that plague all relationships.
Told from the perspective of the immortal Hermes, Thompson’s celestial novel is a riff on the modern romance. Both funny and moving, the book reveals the intimate yearnings of those on the hunt for everlasting love—whether on Olympus or right here on Earth.
Thompson, best known for her young adult fantasy novels, has won the Whitbread/Costa Children’s Book Award and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and has been awarded the Children’s Books Ireland (CBI) Book of the Year Award four times. She currently lives on the west coast of Ireland.
Down Among the Gods by Kate Thompson by OpenRoadMedia
Other ebooks now available by Kate Thompson:
An Act of Worship: In a small Irish town, an environmental activist and a butcher come together to track down a violent criminal
Thin Air: Set on a farm on Ireland’s West Coast, this gripping novel revolves around a missing teenager—