Orpheus Lost

Most readers know the old tale of Orpheus descending into the underworld to bring back his beloved Eurydice. Janette Turner Hospital takes that story and sets it in the modern day. Leela May goes down into a dark world of abduction, cruelty and hopelessness to look for her partner, Mishka.

Hospital, an Australian novelist, uses the myth as a frame for a contemporary story about love, loss and the lengths a person will go to in order to find someone they cannot live without.