It is impossible not to be moved by Maeve Gilmore's memoir of her husband... The personal story underlying the creation of Peake's works in prose, verse and pictorial line is both heartbreaking and idyllic... The mo ...
Anthony Burgess, Spectactor
Peake himself comes alive in this touching memoir [A World Away]... Written in love and pain, this book reaches back beyond the years of terrible illness... A love story as strangely haunting as the talent of ...
Evening Standard
Mervyn Peake, artist and writer, whose haunted work opened windows on some the key horrors of the age, indeed of the ages, and whose own life was cut short by crippling nervous disease. His work was intensely, start ...
Norman Shrapnel, Guardian
It is impossible not to be moved by Maeve Gilmore's memoir of her husband... The personal story underlying the creation of Peake's works in prose, verse and pictorial line is both heartbreaking and idyllic... The mo ...
Anthony Burgess, Spectactor
Peake himself comes alive in this touching memoir [A World Away]... Written in love and pain, this book reaches back beyond the years of terrible illness... A love story as strangely haunting as the talent of ...
Evening Standard
Mervyn Peake, artist and writer, whose haunted work opened windows on some the key horrors of the age, indeed of the ages, and whose own life was cut short by crippling nervous disease. His work was intensely, start ...
Norman Shrapnel, Guardian
It is impossible not to be moved by Maeve Gilmore's memoir of her husband... The personal story underlying the creation of Peake's works in prose, verse and pictorial line is both heartbreaking and idyllic... The mo ...
Anthony Burgess, Spectactor
Peake himself comes alive in this touching memoir [A World Away]... Written in love and pain, this book reaches back beyond the years of terrible illness... A love story as strangely haunting as the talent of ...
Evening Standard
Mervyn Peake, artist and writer, whose haunted work opened windows on some the key horrors of the age, indeed of the ages, and whose own life was cut short by crippling nervous disease. His work was intensely, start ...