BC: A novel inspired by Black Celebration

Basildon, Essex. March 1986. Four girls have disappeared. A fifth is dying in a clearing no one can find. And a boy in a battered black Autobianchi is driving through the rain, thinking about a girl he hasn't lost yet. ⠀Her name is Anson Miller. She is seventeen. She has blue eyes and a boy who loves her and no idea that she has been chosen.Jacob Jacobson — known as Fly — drives a dying car, skips school, and has never finished anything in his life. But when Anson vanishes into the Essex woods, he will drive into the dark to find her. What he finds in the clearing will change them both. What follows will be stranger and more terrible than either of them can understand.In the factories-turned-ruins of Thatcher's Britain, a young man called Nightboy is drawing symbols in blood and ash — opening a door that has been shut since the night his parents died on Cemetery Road. He needs one more girl to complete the pattern. He has found her. ⠀BC is a novel about love that refuses to die, darkness that refuses to leave, and a town where the concrete dreams of post-war England rotted from the inside out.Set across eighteen days in 1986, inspired by the 40th anniversary of Depeche Mode's Black Celebration, it is a story about what happens when ordinary people collide with something that is not ordinary at all.And about what stays behind when the morning comes. ⠀"Tonight she was here. Tonight that had to be enough."Published by In Nebula Lux — where words drift like stars into the dark. Read more