Michael Campbell

And I've kept most of those books that have made me.

And I looked at the books that I went, have gone back to.

Not the fantastic, the great book.

The one that kind of, you know, that was really brilliant, but I wouldn't necessarily pick up again.

Oh, totally.

Oh, you don't want to spoil an experience.

So I suppose where I started with my thinking, I was thinking everybody has a sort of the book of their teenage years, that coming of age one.

And for me, it was Le Grand Monde.

It's a French book I've read in translation only.

And it was by a young writer.

It's his only book.

It was released in 1913.

He died in the first month of the First World War.

What it was, was it's written from the perspective of a 15-year-old boy about his hero, Mon, who comes to his school, who's 17, and he goes on an adventure into the countryside and sees and experiences this magical, wonderful party, which is costumed, and this beautiful woman, Yvonne,

And he is captivated and infatuated.

And the book is about his search to go back to that place.

Go to Cuba.

Aligio Carpentier, The Lost Steps.

It was around about 20.

And it's about a composer who has his disillusion with New York life.