This is Louis at his insightful best, as month-by-month he documents his year of unforeseen new challenges - and wonders why it took a pandemic for him to learn that what really matters in life is right in front of him. This Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, visits Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious, frigid storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Why is his wife so intolerant of his obsession with Joe Wicks’s daily workouts? Can he reinvent himself as a podcast host? Why has the internet gone nuts for his old journalistic compadre Joe Exotic? And will his teenage sons ever see him as anything other than ‘cringe’? The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. Though to the outside world he seems hardly able to speak or hear, his interior world is alive with a fury of feelings, ideas, observations and memories as he struggles to give meaning to the approaching end of his vivid life, and find his way into Eternity. Theroux the Keyhole is the candidly honest and hilarious diary of a man attempting to navigate the perils of work and family life, locked down in Covid World with his wife, two teenagers and a Youtube-addict fiver year-old. Through the Keyhole is a narrative that springs from the mind of Billy Dekeyser, a poet in the final throes of Alzheimer’s. Now he finds himself locked down in a location even more full of pitfalls, surprises and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home. Louis’s latest TV series about weirdness – the one involving the American far right, home-grown jihadis, and SoundCloud rappers – has been unexpectedly derailed by the onset of a global pandemic. Come round to Louis Theroux’s house, where the much-loved documentary-maker finds himself in unexpected danger.
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