Eating Peacocks

by Barbara Else

Delia wakes up in hospital to find herself paralysed and with no memory of what has happened. As she struggles back to health she has to come to terms not only with her immediate past but also with the impact of events in her early childhood.

166 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Barbara Else is a playwright and fiction writer, and has also worked as a literary agent, editor and fiction consultant. Else won the Victoria University Writer’s Fellowship in 1999, and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature in 2005.

Reviews

[Rebecca Mason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautifully written with some gorgeous metaphors and the suspense nicely paced.