Peacock on the Moon: A childhood recollection of prejudice in action and pride stretched too far

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Nicola Briggs

Peacock on the Moon

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ISBN: 9781919249711

A childhood recollection of prejudice in action and pride stretched too far

Nicola Briggs

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English

Nicola Briggs
31 March 2026

Memoirs; True stories; Social discrimination; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies

Advisory note. The content of Peacock on the Moon reflects the language and attitudes of the decades it is describing, which some readers may find offensive. References to acts of overt discrimination run throughout for the purpose of completing the picture of life within a family where the head of the household was eventually forced to stand before a Leeds Race Tribunal in 1979. The fractional nature of boarding school life, insofar as it sets family members apart, and the role of women in the home are also considered.

Nicola Briggs grew up in a beautiful Georgian house in Huddersfield, which she loved, but she didn't realise how much until her parents sent her away to a prestigious boarding school at eleven. From then on, the idea of 'home' became a distant dream, a place she could only enjoy for sixteen weeks a year.

This coming-of-age memoir is a powerful portrait of family life, dominated by a charismatic but bigoted and self-destructive solicitor whose anti-immigration rhetoric knew no bounds.

Set in Yorkshire, England, this story exposes the suffocating middle-class existence of one family, revealing the deep-seated racism and status wars of the 1960s and 1970s that Nicola felt pressured to accept. But would she?

This is not a nostalgic look back at the past but a story of reckoning, told with humour, clarity and deep personal insight.

By: Nicola Briggs
Imprint: Nicola Briggs
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781919249711
ISBN 10: 1919249710
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 31 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicola Briggs was born in Luton, England, but considers herself a Yorkshire lass, despite having Lancastrian parents and receiving an education in the Cotswold town of Cheltenham. She practised as a probate and property lawyer in Huddersfield, Dewsbury, and Wilmslow for the best part of forty years. Much as she enjoyed her time serving the needs of her clients, when the burning need to write a memoir took over, she wasted no time at all in loosening her chains to the office. She lives in Derbyshire with her partner and two cats. When not sitting at her writing desk, Nicola enjoys riding out on sunny days on her Harley, walking along the rivers and limestone dales of the Peak District National Park, and feeding chocolate to her grandchildren.