Mr Peacock's Possessions
THE TIMES Book of the Year
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Hot Key Books
Published:21st Mar '19
Should be back in stock very soon
Intimate, intense and beautiful. A highly acclaimed novel of possession, power and loss of innocence for fans of Mister Pip and The Poisonwood Bible
'Intelligent, beautifully written'
The Times
'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author'
Stella Magazine
'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined'
Lancashire Evening Post
Oceania, 1879.
'Intelligent, beautifully written'
The Times
'Historical fiction fans, meet your new favourite author'
Stella Magazine
'Beautifully written, immaculately researched and powerfully imagined'
Lancashire Evening Post
Oceania, 1879. For two years the Peacocks, a determined family of settlers, have struggled to make a remote volcanic island their home. At last, a ship appears. The six Pacific Islanders on board have travelled over eight hundred miles in search of new horizons. Hopes are high, until a vulnerable boy vanishes.
In their search for the lost child, settlers and newcomers together uncover far more than they were looking for. The island's secrets force young Lizzie Peacock to question her deepest convictions, and slowly this tiny, fragile community begins to fracture . . .
An intimate, intense and beautifully realised novel of possession, power and the liberating loss of innocence. The perfect Christmas gift for fans of MISTER PIP and THE POISONWOOD BIBLE.
Syson's novel, a modern take on the literary genre known (after Robinson Crusoe) as the robinsonade, is a haunting exploration of Lizzie's disillusion with her father's dreams and their damaging consequences * The Sunday Times *
Syson's novel is richly evocative of a Pacific world in flux, as cultures clash and individuals battle to find their place amid the ensuing confusion . . . a very moving story of fathers and children, of faith and disillusion, and of the dangerous consequences of trying to take possession of people as well as land * BBC History Magazine *
An intelligent, beautifully written story about a dysfunctional family in a sinister paradise * The Times *
Lushly written, with immaculate historical detail, it worked for me on many levels * Woman and Home *
Mr Peacock's Possessions is a wonderful book, full of drama, courage and aspirations. The language is rich and the characters so humanely drawn * Carol Drinkwater *
ISBN: 9781471403699
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 27mm
Weight: 322g
432 pages