Children of Mervyn and Maeve Peake

[Extollager]

Just ran across this -- don't remember seeing it mentioned here.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...ds-Interview-with-Mervyn-Peakes-Children.html

 

[River Boy]

Thanks, didn't know about the memoir. Looking forward to reading Titus Awakes some time soon.

 

[GOLLUM]

Thanks for posting Extollager.

That was an interesting article. I purchased a copy of Titus Awakes last year but I've sadly not yet had the chance to even open the cover and probably won't be until 2014 at the earliest...sadly.

The memoir sounds like it could be of interest but probably not something I would rush out to buy.

 

[hitmouse]

Titus Awakes is a lovely, touching, and quite haunting book, really an elegy to Mervyn by Maeve. If you read it expecting Gormenghast 4 then you will probably be disappointed.

 

[dask]

Anyone see the "100 novels everyone must read" on the same page? The description of The Hound Of The Baskervilles was belittling and the synopsis for War Of The Worlds gave the ending away in its one sentence. Like many books, there have been better articles.