The Möbius Book is a neither straightforwardly Lacey’s fifth novel, nor entirely not. It is a work in two parts, one ostensibly fiction and the other memoir, in its printed form designed to be read in whichever order the reader chooses, with neither presented as the ‘correct’ choice. In the the digital ARC I read, the first part is the fictional narrative, which concerns two friends - Marie and Edie - who meet at the former’s flat in the wake of their respective painful breakups (Marie with her ex-wife K, with whom she co-parented two children; Edie from an abusive partner), both choosing to ignore the blood seeping through Marie’s neighbour’s door.

Pew introduces us to a fairly unique character: nameless, of indeterminate age, gender and race, seemingly mute and amnesiac. They are named Pew by a family who find them sleeping on a church pew (as others have commented: in the manner of naming a pet). Pew's origins and identity are shrouded in mystery, and the Christian Bible Belt community they find themself taken in by is determined to solve that mystery. Alongside this, there is something strange going on in a nearby town, with its own community engaging in protests in the face of a spate of 'disappearances' of young people. In Pew's own town, it's the week of an annual 'festival' which sounds more and more sinister as we learn more about it.

Biography of X is an elaborately constructed fictional biography a female artist, author and musician known only as X. It is written in the persona of C.M. Lucca, X's widow, and supposedly published in 2005 as the conclusion of a decade's research following X's death and initially in response to another, inaccurate, biography.