I’ve just finished the novel I’ve been writing since March, and it’s now out on submission. In the meantime, I wanted to share a few sample chapters with you.
A quick glimpse of the book:
At its simplest, Great Are the Myths is a coming-of-age story about a girl from thirteen to twenty-three — her first love, her trials and tribulations at boarding school and university, and the emotional landscape that shapes her into adulthood.
On a deeper level, the novel is about myth-making — personal, cultural, and national.
It asks how families, societies, and even our own minds create myths and call them truth. Birdie’s consciousness is the book’s architecture, unfolding in a memory-driven, Proustian mode where time folds and scenes refract like film — cuts, dissolves, recurring motifs — rather than a traditional plot.
The story explores the myths of fame, class, beauty, and youth, alongside older myths like aristocracy and American exceptionalism. Figures such as Sinatra, Monroe, Grant and the Elvis-like boy appear not as biographies but as cultural tokens — twentieth-century pantheon gods through whom Birdie understands longing, power, performance, and the emotional cost of being young in a world obsessed with surfaces.
At the same time, the novel looks closely at the quieter myths placed on women: to be patient, polite, agreeable, undemanding, while men move freely and are celebrated for it. It doesn’t preach; it simply shows the emotional labour expected of young women and how those quiet imbalances carve themselves into a girl’s interior life.
Ultimately, Great Are the Myths isn’t just a story — it’s a commentary on stories: how they’re constructed, how they shape us, and how we eventually outgrow them.
If you’re curious, I’ve recorded a few sample chapters. You can listen via the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/@Bergotte/playlists
My World of Interiors 
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