In the long, sun-drenched days of a London summer, eighteen-year-old Alex is on the brink of adulthood and longing for something more. That something arrives in the form of Ben Warren-White: older, beautiful, and effortlessly at home in the city’s countercultural underground. Drawn into Ben’s orbit, Alex slips from quiet riverside afternoons into a world of music clubs, sexual discovery, and dangerous glamour. What begins as infatuation soon pulls him into a world that feels thrilling, confusing, and impossible to control, as Alex tests the limits of desire, identity, and self-knowledge. Set during the late 1960s, Alex Down the Rabbit-Hole is a coming-of-age story about first love, influences, and learning when to hold on—and when to let go.