Eating Peacocks
Author(s): Barbara Else
Delia's body lay flat as a piece of paper, blank, as if everything on it had scurried off over the side. Delia Whittborne finds herself in a hospital bed but can't recall how she got there, or even who she is. As her memory slowly returns, she realises it's just not her recent past and love-life she needs to make sense of but her early childhood on her grandparents' farm and the barn with the peacocks strutting round outside. This poignant, funny novel explores the intricate influences of memory and experience, invention and deception, as the fiesty but vulnerable Delia regains physical and pschological strength. Subtle and assured, Eating Peacocks marks a new development in Barbara Else's exploration of male-female relationships and family life.
Product Information
Barbara Else is the author of five previous best-selling novels and two books for children, and edited six collections of stories for children and GRAND STANDS, in which top New Zealand writers talk about grandparenthood. Her first novel, THE WARRIOR QUEEN, was shortlisted for the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She was the Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence for 1999. With her husband, writer Chris Else, Barbara runs TFS, a Wellington-based literary agency and assessment service.
General Fields
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- : vinteb
- : vinteb
- : 0.32
- : 01 October 1998
- : 228mm X 152mm
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Barbara Else
- : Paperback
- : 823.914
- : 200
