On the other hand, Caleb is more sexually experienced – Peter is gay but hasn’t “done anything” yet and this helps balance out the power dynamics to a degree. Caleb is also unsure, once his heart is engaged, whether Peter will stay or whether he will cave into his family’s demands to conform. It sounds simple but there’s obviously more to it than that.Ĭaleb comes from a poor family in rural Tennessee and has an understandable mistrust of the super-rich Cabot family. Over the course of the journey across the US, Peter and Caleb learn about one another and fall in love. In fact, both thought the other didn’t like them. Peter and Caleb crossed paths in college but they weren’t friends. Peter has a car and an equally desperate need to be elsewhere and so tells Caleb he’s heading to LA anyway and offers to drive him across the country. He’s never been good enough and has never felt like he fit in.Ĭaleb Murphy has also just graduated from Harvard and the money he’d been relying upon to purchase his bus ticket to LA (where he has a journalism job lined up) has been used for a family emergency and now he’s stuck and desperate. Peter is the disappointment of the family. Peter has just graduated college (Harvard) and his presence has been demanded at home in Cape Cod to assist with campaigning. Peter Cabot is the son of a US Senator making a run for the Democratic presidential nomination. It feels like a very underrepresented historical period within romance and ripe for more exploration. Apart from the author/narrator combination, which is usually a sure win for me, the big attraction of Peter Cabot Gets Lost was the 1960’s setting.

Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian