
And He Shall Appear
Author: Kate van der Borgh
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 01/16/2025
Categories: Fiction, Friendship

Author: Kate van der Borgh
Narrator: Elliot Fitzpatrick
Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 01/16/2025
Categories: Fiction, Friendship
By day, Kate van der Borgh is a freelance copywriter, and by night, she’s usually composing or playing music. She grew up in Lancashire and went on to study music at Cambridge, so there’s a reasonable amount of her in her narrator—including the fact that she was a pianist and reluctant bassoonist. She has, however, never had reason to suspect that her best friend has occult powers. Her short fiction has been published by The Fiction Desk, and she’s a graduate of Faber’s six-month Writing a Novel course. She is based in London.
The unnamed male narrator has been musical from birth, his talents securing him a place at Cambridge around the turn of the millennium. A state school attendee, he arrives from a small northern town, the gifted proverbial fish out of water. Maybe this is a chance for reinvention though perhaps Cambr......more
A music student arrives in Cambridge to start his degree, aware his ordinary background marks him out as an outsider. Things start to change when he forms an unlikely friendship with the wealthy and charismatic Bryn Cavendish, a talented magician with a thing for the occult. Yet as their bond deepen......more
The Secret History meets Saltburn and In My Dreams I Hold a Knife. An unnamed narrator feels out of his depth studying music at Cambridge amidst people moving in a whole other world - separated by class, connection, and finesse. He becomes entranced by Bryn, the centre of everyone’s life at their co......more
Dark academia is en vogue at the moment, spawning its own sub-sub-genres all over the place. Kate van der Borgh's debut, And He Shall Appear, is what I shall refer to as classic dark academia, with a direct through-line from The Secret History. Our unnamed narrator arrives at an unnamed Cambridge co......more