Miss Woo Country
David Peak
Paperback
Care facility resident Peter looks back on his life and the people who’ve shaped it in this tale of magical realism.
- ISBN 9781781324950
- Published Apr 2016
- Paperback
229 x 152mm (270 pages)
‘Without my perception of it, the world cannot live.’ This truism lies at the heart of Miss Woo Country, a darkly comic, thoughtful and meticulously observant novel. Taking place in just one moment on an ordinary day in a care facility, the chair-bound narrator’s life has its being and then dies, but quietly and beautifully so and with a smile on its face.
David Peak was born in Evesham Worcestershire. From the age of twelve or so he started writing and hasn’t stopped yet. In the eighties he attended The University of the West of England and the University of East Anglia. Thereafter he continued reading and writing as if his life depended on it. His first novel
No.4 Pickle Street was published in 1988 to critical acclaim. His second novel
The Cotoneaster Factor came out in 1990 and the third,
Go Gentle in 1991, both again very well received. Then suddenly no-one wanted to publish his work. His reaction to this was to write even more than he had been doing in the expectation that at some point he would come back into fashion. He also began a long collaboration with author Louise Gethin to produce scripts for situation comedies and comedy dramas. This continues unabated. Since
Go Gentle David has written many other novels of which
Miss Woo Country is the last but one. He is currently working on
This Angular World which he expects to finish soon.
When not writing he is to be found in a heap on the sofa watching old episodes of Frasier.
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