Set against an Eastern European backdrop, A Magus in Bucharest follows the entanglement between a young woman and ​an enigmatic older man. What begins as a platonic affair soon turns into a psychoanalytic journey, as she interprets his cryptic missives through literature, myths, and the occult—spiralling ever deeper into the theatre of her own mind.

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But when her estranged Aunt Dolly arrives—a ruined cabaret dancer—the family’s past erupts into the present. Between her erotic fixation and the secrets of her dead grandmother, Helen’s fate becomes inseparable from the ghosts of the women who shaped her.

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At once hilarious and heartbreaking, A Magus in Bucharest is part novel, part analysis of self. It is a story about seduction, delusion, vanity, theatrics, generational trauma, pain, loss, and rebirth, with a haunting excavation of the myths we worship and the true power shackled within them.

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