Review: The Voice of the Heart by Peter Winnington
Sebastian Peake, son of Mervyn Peake, recently reviewed Peter Winnington's The Voice of the Heart: the working of Mervyn Peake's imagination on The Mervyn Peak Blog. Sebastian Peake calls The Voice of the Heart, ". . . a very welcome and highly illuminating addition to an ever-growing biographical canon."
Peake goes on to credit Winnington's analysis:
Instead of repeating the known facts, . . . Winnington elects to examine themes from Peake's life as disparate as islands, animals and birds, solitude, love, and evil.. . . Winnington grasps completely the idiosyncratic open individualism and generosity of spirit which produced the work. . . .