the existential moron’s lockdown novel

Released 23 July 2023 – Pre-order now @ Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com

A “talentless, misguided d******d” attempts to make being “Welsh & desperate” seem “sexy” against the backdrop of a global pandemic.

The Main Character (Welsh, Virgo, ENTP, emo, 32, M) abandons the decadent neo-colonialist lifestyle of an English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teacher to pursue the workshy millennial ideal of life as a digital nomad.

A quick visit to Wales becomes months and months and etc. of escalating and easing lockdowns, marathon video chats, Valleys bike rides & ticket-free train travel, socially-distanced booze & weed sessions, and legally-questionable house and shed visits with his Dad & the Boys, mental disequilibrium fuelling an obsession with becoming a generation-defining best-selling author:

the Welsh Irvine Welsh, the ginger Jack Kerouac, the broke Bret Easton Ellis, the homebound Hunter S Thompson, penning Fear & Loathing in the Living Room:

a Tao Lin-eclipsing autofictional Voice of His Generation.

hiraeth [n.] [Welsh] an intense sense of longing for your homeland.

HIRAETH. [alt] [ALL CAPS.] the existential moron’s lockdown novel; Proust-like chronicling of life during a once-in-a-century viral outbreak – novel autofiction exploiting the millions dead from a novel virus to bring its author closer to enablement of his delusions than ever before.

[a HAYDN WILKS novel. ]

Coming 23 July, 2023

Find it on:

Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com / Goodreads

COVER ART by Jack Skivens (jackskivensillustration.com)