Between Darkness and Light by Roy Peachey | 2021 BBNYA Semi-Finalist Spotlight
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Today I am introducing Between Darkness and Light by Roy Peachey
Book Details
Between Darkness and Light by Roy Peachey Published by Eyrie Press on June 24, 2019
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Military
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 249
'A shape flew towards him, blurred and uncertain, then the terror of anticipation was driven out by pain and horror. Weilian Tell missed the apple. The arrow’s sharp, bright tip pierced his eyeball.'
Shanghai 1900. Blinded in one eye during a childhood game of William Tell, Wang Weijun loses himself in a world of magic, languages, and Shakespeare. When the Great War begins, he seizes the opportunity to leave his past behind by signing up as a translator for the Chinese Labour Corps. However, what he finds in France jolts him out of his one-eyed admiration for the West and plunges him into a new and wholly unexpected battle in which east and west, tragedy and comedy, love and suffering meet, and the darkness of war is illuminated in ways he could never have anticipated.
Shortlisted for the Impress Prize for New Writers, Between Darkness and Light is a novel about blindness, an unconventional love story, a war novel in which there is no fighting, and a post-war novel about the meeting of East and West.
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About Roy Peachey
About Roy Peachey
I am reluctant to simplify the richness of life to a few bald facts but, since it seems to be a requirement for websites such as this one, I reluctantly offer the following misleading precis:
• I am a husband, father and son
• I am a Catholic with catholic reading tastes
• I am an author, home educator, and secondary school teacher.
• I have had six books published: The Race, a dual narrative children’s novel; Between Darkness and Light, a novel about the Chinese Labour Corps in World War I; 50 Books for Life: a concise guide to Catholic literature; Popes, Emperors and Elephants: the first thousand years of Christian culture; Did Jesus Go to School? and other questions about parents, children and education; Out of the Classroom and Into the World: how to transform Catholic education.
• I have degrees in Modern History from Oxford, English from the Open University, and Chinese Studies from SOAS, University of London.
• I also have a postgraduate diploma in Lake District Studies from Lancaster University, a certificate in Natural Sciences from the Open University, and am working on a PhD in Theology and contemporary fiction at the University of Nottingham.
• I have taught the following subjects in English schools: Critical Thinking, Drama, English Language, English Literature, History, Latin, and Theology
• I have had the following jobs: Area Secretary for Aid to the Church in Need; Assistant Warden at a night shelter for homeless men; Director of Curriculum Development; Director of Learning; Head of Drama; Head of Higher Education and Careers; Head of Sixth Form
• I have written for Adoption Today, the Catholic Herald, the Catholic Times, Catholic World Report, First Things, Humanum Review, Standpoint, The Scotsman, the Telegraph, the TES, UnHerd, and the Universe
• The more I read the more I realise how little I know.
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