Two failed relationships and his elderly mother’s confusion bring Daniel face-to-face with past demons. Then he meets Cerys and Dr Bruno at Happiness The Experience, and discovers a bold new way of regaining control over the past. Daniel’s Beetles is an absorbing, unnerving novel about memory and forgetting, stories and lies. It describes our attempts to recreate ourselves in ways we can never fully control. And in Dr Bruno, offers a disturbing glimpse of how our fears and desires can be manipulated by much larger forces.