David O'Connor

You're thinking, OK, there was actually so much more to this book than I realized that I was in the book before the book had even started for me.

So I thought, you know, I think maybe it should be our next book club pick as well to reread it again.

Yeah, I think just to fold the listeners in a bit, they're not aware of the book.

Basically, the whole book is set in a house, but it's not your normal house.

The house is basically... Infinite.

Infinite.

Correct.

Yeah, it's just halls and rooms like one forever filled with statues.

There's only two people in the house.

There is the titular Piranesi and then there's someone else called The Other.

It's not his name.

So basically it's just these two people and all they're doing there is kind of exploring the house but they still haven't explored it all and they've been there as long as Piranesi can remember.

But then all of a sudden, a third person appears in the house and writing shows up in the house that this third person is leaving behind messages.

It just doesn't make sense of what the world is.

And then even Piranesi finds old diary entries, old written letters from himself that he has no memory writing.

And it's a question of can you trust your own handwriting if you have no memory of writing it down?

Because then I just felt the whole book had a malevolent twist.

Yeah, it's something entirely in its own place.

I think it takes inspiration from so many different things.

I think you are right, Sinead, that there is definitely a whole kind of Greek mythology kind of attached to it.