THE MOST MOVING STORY OF HUMAN COURAGE IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN LITERATURE This book is a personal memoir of Mervyn Peake, author of Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone . It tells the majestic but heartbreaking tale of a genius - a novelist, playwright and painter, a man who wore "purple waistcoats and strange ties cut from curtains or scarves", and who died in 1968 of "premature senility". Maeve Gilmore is his widow. Their life together began gloriously. The early years of the two young artists' marriage were idyllic. Wherever they lived, the magnificent Merevyn Peake would write and draw and paint. Then struck a series of unpredictable blows. And then the final one. And Maeve Gilmore is left, indomitable, with the memory of a miraculously Modern Man - whose strength, for her, is eternal. A work of art - MAURICE COLLIS Without doubt one of the most moving books I have ever read. I am sure that even those not familiar with Peake's work will find this book engrossing - MICHAEL MOORCOCK