Eating peacocks

the long version

Delia Whitborne finds herself in a hospital bed but can't recall how she got there, or even who she is. As her memory slowly returns, she realizes it's not just her recent past and love-life she needs to make sense of but her early childhood on her grandparents' farm and the barn with the peacocks strutting round outside. This ... novel explores the intricate influences of memory and experience, invention nand deception, as the feisty but vulnerable Delia regains physical and psychological strength.. ..."--Back cover.