Below

The intricate and arduous underground world of caving is the setting for this prize-winning first novel of quest and self-discovery.

Todd has left his job and broken up with his girlfriend. While picking up the pieces of his postgraduate research, he finds himself increasingly drawn into the underground world of caving, and especially into an ambiguous relationship with Phil, an experienced caver obsessed with retracing the steps of an expedition during which a young friend was lost. Meanwhile, relationships with his divorced parents and a new girlfriend become increasingly fraught.

Below is a beautifully written and engrossing novel which comes to a spellbinding conclusion in the deep chambers of Deadman’'s Cave.