N.L. Castle
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
Genres: Experimental Fiction, Historical Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction
N.L. Castle writes from a stretch of coast where the chalk gives way to limestone. The work is concerned with what places hold — what is buried beneath them, what is carried into them, and what will not stay buried. Light Come, Light Go is the debut novel, published by Saltbone Press.
N.L. Castle's books
Genres: Historical Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
Portland. A limestone island off the Dorset coast, tethered to England by a single road and a thread of pebble beach. Three prisons. Ancient quarries. Six hundred years of secrets buried in the rock. In 1999, William Delaney arrives with his two daughters, fleeing a collapsed marriage and hoping the island's history might inspire a book. What none of them expect is the island to reach back. In 1348, a sailor named Galfridus returns home to find the Black Death has come ashore before him — carried, perhaps, by his own ship's crew. As the plague moves through the community, something older and stranger moves with it. Seven centuries apart, two families are pulled toward the same stone, the same crack in the earth, the same white-haired girl who will not stay dead. Layered like the island's own geology — from Rubble down through Kimmeridge Clay to the Basal Shell...