Today...
Titus Awakes - Maeve Gilmore *Based on a fragment left by her husband Mervyn Peake, author of the brilliant Gormenghast 'trilogy' Gilmore had written this book some decades ago in the form of notebooks, discovered by relatives last year in an attic. Bit ambivalent about this because this is not Mervyn Peake writing but I'm interested to see what direction his late wife took the series in. Blurb: Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast trilogy is widely acknowledged to be, as Robertson Davies pronounced, “a classic of our age.” In these extraordinary novels, Peake created a world where all is like a dream--lush, fantastical, and vivid. Yet it was incomplete. Parkinson’s disease took Peake’s life in 1968, depriving his fans of the fourth and final volume of the series, Titus Awakes except for a few tantalizing pages, after which his writing became indecipherable. Maeve Gilmore, Peake’s wife, finished the novel, and now at last the fabled Titus Awakes is published in its entirety. Fans of Peake will delight in this new, wonderful tale, published one hundred years after Peake’s birth, every bit as thrilling and masterfully written as his famed trilogy.