First published 2019
On the Isle of Wight, a working-class queer narrator navigates a landscape of fractured national identity and personal survival. Trapped between familial expectations, migrant histories, and the island's suffocating geography, they construct a narrative that defies traditional storytelling. Each encounter—with family, with place, with memory—becomes a site of potential rebellion. The rules of belonging are about to be rewritten, one provocative fragment at a time. At its heart, this is a story of radical self-invention against systemic constraint.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary, 21st-century, queer
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, nonlinear-narrative, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Isle of Wight
Period: 21st-century
110 pages · Paperback · Peninsula Press