Kel Menton: A Fix of Light

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Monday 14 July 2025

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11:30 am

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A Fix of Light is trans love story with a dark magical twist, from Cork author Kel Menton, an astonishing new Irish voice in YA fiction. This powerful and moving novel seamlessly blends queer romance and fantasy. It’s a story. that champions hope and the possibility of surviving trauma to build a life worth living, with protagonists that destigmatise trans experience.

‘A Fix of Light will break your heart and heal it all over again.’ Clara Kumagai, author of Catfish Rolling
Age: YA (and also loved by adults)

Admission: Free. YA (and also loved by adults)

Hanan is supposed to be dead. The forest outside Skenashogue sent him home alive – but changed. A strange new magic makes every emotion a physical force he can’t control. Bright and gentle, fox-like Pax is everything Hanan is not. Only his touch can mute the power, quiet the curse. Secrets give power to the darkness. For their love to survive, the boys will have to open their hearts.

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Kel Menton

Kel Menton (they/them) is a non-binary, neurodivergent writer from Cork in Ireland. Kel works in youth theatre as a facilitator and playwright mentor and has written, produced and published a...

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