We were really happy to see this Publishers Weekly review of Ariadne, I Love You, J.Ashley-Smith’s latest dark tale of longing and obsession, which hits the streets on July 20, 2021. In the meantime, you can check out his novel The Attic Tragedy which has been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous awards!
Ashley-Smith uses this eerie, ambiguous ghost story to explore the fraught relationship between artist and muse and the thin line between love and obsession … multilayered, atmospheric, and thought-provoking.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ariadne, I Love You
Jude is dragged out of Alt-Country obscurity, out of the dismal loop of booze and sadness baths and the boundless, insatiable loneliness, to scrub up and fly to Australia for a last, desperate comeback tour. Hardly worth getting out of bed for—and he wouldn’t, if it weren’t for Coreen.
But Coreen is dead. And, worse than that, she’s married. Jude’s swan-song tour becomes instead a terminal descent, into the sordid past, into the meaning hidden in forgotten songs, into Coreen’s madness diary, there to waken something far worse than her ghost.
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