Daren Kay’s new novel The Brightonians, which has just been published by Grosvenor House Publishing.Initially leading to them back to Brighton in the Swinging Sixties, what they ultimately discover is even more shocking – connecting one of them to the past in ways that no-one could have imagined.Kay says the novel is inspired by his experiences of gay life in the seaside city over the last three decades.
He has spent the last few years excavating Sussex’s LGBTQ+ history for Brighton Museum’s Queer the Pier exhibition, uncovering a wealth of salacious real-life stories along the way.