Saint Joan of BFD: Via Crucis by Danielle Wilde

Bradford in the 1990s. The boybands are crooning, Peter Andre is flexing and the flashers are crouching. At Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Girls School, female members of the congregation are protesting Eric Gill's Via Crucis following his unmasking as a sexual predator. But the interests of the Church must come first and without Eric Gill's works, the Church will be closed. Deep in Year 10, a damaged young girl falls dangerously in love, guided by the voice of Saint Joan of Arc who has started to speak to her in the dark. Saint Joan of BFD is a groundbreaking sonnet cycle structured around Eric Gill's 14 Stations of the Cross (Via Crucis), retelling the legend of Saint Joan of Arc set in 1990s Bradford against a backdrop of boyband culture and compulsory heterosexuality.