The Night Fogs

Description

Divided lands, divided minds, divided loyalties… In the fogs, nothing is clear

After battling with the fogs all night, the last thing El Morgan needed was to find a strange-looking baby lying like a sacrifice on the standing stones in the city park.

The capital of a newly independent Wales is a city under siege, smothered in thick fogs that sweep in at dusk and swirl around all night, disturbing people’s minds. El, a clinical psychologist, helps those worst affected by the fogs, while her sister, who’s just lost her own baby, cares for the abandoned infant. Meanwhile, Caradoc, an American neuroscientist, seeks a scientific explanation for the fogs while coping with florid hallucinations about his past life as a medieval saint. As the relentless fogs cut the city off from the rest of the world, resources become scarce, paranoia rises and the military argues for a counterattack on England.

The Night Fogs is a sharply topical, funny, satirical, and moving story that explores divisions between communities, friends, family members and even parts of ourselves.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A literary, speculative fiction in the tradition of John Wyndham, Emily St John Mandel, and Liz Jensen, with topical themes of division and separation in the wake of the Brexit vote, the UK’s impending separation from the EU, and the prospect of another Scottish Independence vote – and events throughout the world, such as the Basque separatist movement in Spain.

The possible alternatives are given, ranging from New Age mysticism to quantum entaglement, from the idea of time folding back on itself to young man experiencing hallucinations. A novel about division and and healing.