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Death Comes For Peter Pan
Death Comes For Peter Pan
Jul 16, 2025 4:33 AM

Author:Joan Brady

Death Comes For Peter Pan

THE BOOK; Alice Kessleris a fighter and when she is told that her husband only has a few months left to live, she refuses to accept it. Instead Alice searches relentlessly for a doctor willing to offer a better prognosis and when she fails to find one in England, she takes her beloved Peter back to where they came from. America, the land of miracles. But Alice soon discovers that their fight is far from over. Death Comes for Peter Pan is a turbulent and unpredictable love story - the story of a young woman's fight for her husband's dignity and a powerful indictment of the politics that rule medicine today.

Reviews

A real page-turner...altogether wonderful

—— Time Out

Unfolds with all the glamorous intensity of a hot New York night...tinglingly alive

—— Sunday Times

Joan Brady writes beautifully when she's angry... a furious fiction

—— Sunday Telegraph

Biter comedy salts away any trace of sentimentality... wholly absorbing... always unpredictable... always fascinating

—— Spectator

Splendid...impressive..eloquent and passionate... quick and compelling...devastating... magnificent

—— Literary Review

For ARRANGED MARRIAGE, 'As irresistible as the impulse which leads her characters to surface to maturity, raising their heads above the floods of silver ignorance'

—— New York Times Book Review
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