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octavia_cade's review
3.0
This is mildly interesting, but it suffers by comparison. Having just read Maeve Gilmore's memoir of life with her husband Mervyn Peake, which was just stunningly written, this appears a bit simplistic by comparison, both in subject and presentation. Sebastian Peake tries, but he doesn't have the literary skill of his parents, and I think the book, small as it is, is perhaps not as focused as it might be. It's supposed to be a memoir of life with his father - it's right in the title, after all, Growing Up With Mervyn Peake - but it felt as if the author spent more time complaining about his various schools (and justifiably so, it has to be said) than talking about his dad. And given that it's his dad that I'm interested in reading about...
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