Pond Life

ISBN: 1463648723

Author: Peskett, William

Condition: New

Product DescriptionIn Sixties Belfast, civil unrest is in the air. Patrick Glennie, whose mother disappeared mysteriously when he was young, is on a quest. Partly, it's to find himself, to discover his identity as an adult, and in this he is guided through the terrors of growing up by his friend, the confident Robert Delgano. All Patrick can offer in return is his knowledge of nature, which suggests an alternative way to live. When they meet again, Robert is in trouble. Patrick fears being pulled into the sordid drug-world inhabited by his friend, only to find that he is already involved and that their youthful friendship was not at all as it seemed. His debt to Robert takes Patrick back to Ireland and then to Spain, where he risks losing everything-even his wife and unborn child. Which life are we truly fitted to lead, the one governed by civilised conventions or a former, more natural one where the game is played by more ruthless rules?About the AuthorWilliam Peskett was brought up in Northern Ireland and educated there and at Cambridge University where he read natural sciences. He has worked in teaching, journalism, marketing, design management and corporate relations and lives in Thailand. He is married and has one daughter. Peskett has published two volumes of poems, The Nightowl's Dissection and Survivors - the first of which won an Eric Gregory Award, three novels, three collections of short stories and a book of essays on ex-pat life in his adopted country.