Publisher's Synopsis
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.
