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Peter Everett was born in Hull, east Yorkshire in 1931, and began writing at the age of nineteen. He is the author of seven previous novels: A Day of Dwarfs, The Instrument, Negatives (which won the 1964 Somerset Maugham Award), A Death in Ireland, The Fetch, Visions of Heydritch and Matisse's War. He has also written for both television and radio. He lives in Sheffield.
Alfred Wallis was a sailor-turned-painter whose ship paintings on cardboard and wood are now reproduced on posters - although in his own lifetime he was known to only a small circle of art aficionados. This raw, vivid and deeply moving novel portrays him living in St Ives in Cornwall like a castaway, forever marooned among his memories of the sea and its drowned, beset by poverty and malice. Everett inhabits the artist's wavering mind with flawless empathy, while offering a thoroughly credible portrait of a small seafaring community. An unforgettable work of fiction. (Kirkus UK)
