Queer Voices Reading Group

The Queer Voices Reading Group is back with a fresh, contemporary novel to sink your teeth into!

Antiquity follows its unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her thirties, who becomes enamored of a chic older artist, Helena, after interviewing her for a magazine. Helena invites the narrator to join her in the Greek city of Ermoupoli where she summers with her teenage daughter Olga. At first an object of jealousy, Olga morphs into an object of desire as the pull of Helena is transposed onto her daughter and the prospect of becoming someone’s first, if perverse, lover.

Translated from the original Swedish, Antiquity is reminiscent of a sapphic Call Me By Your Name, and just as controversial. Trigger warnings for abuse/grooming of a minor.

“Foreboding opening, foregone conclusion: a beautifully drawn portrait where everything is wrong.” (Anna Gaca, Los Angeles Review of Books)