Leo Macey, who lives in Warminster, has had a novel published. It is called A Peg For His Hat. 245 pages. The cover design is by Philip Macey.
In the Preface, Leo writes:
I first wrote A Peg For His Hat in 1966. That year I went to Malaya and the original manuscript was left in safekeeping of a relative who at the time was in the process of moving house. I can only guess that during that move the manuscript was lost or thrown out by mistake. That was the last I ever saw of it.
When I returned to England in 1969 I re-wrote the story from the much amended and dog-eared duplicate and thought no more of it.
Recently, during a period of ‘sort out’, the manuscript again came to light. Friends and family have persuaded me to publish it. So here it is thirty eight years late.
Notes on the back cover read:
‘Without a belief in something outside this life you are nothing more than a complicated composition of cells evolved by chance and destined for nothing. You will drift through your life like a man in a crowded pub looking for a peg for his hat.’
The Second World War has just ended, Alan Burn, an orphan, with an inate ability to paint, longs to fulfil his ambition to become an artist. Following a whirlwind romance in Cairo with Anna, a military nurse, he returns to postwar London and with the help of his Aunt Millie embarks on a journey to fulfil his dream. This journey brings: loyal friends, love, romance, disappointment, grief, despair and religious discovery. But does it find a peg for his hat?
“An ideal holiday read”
A Peg For His Hat by L.F. Macey is published in paperback by Forrest Hall, ISBN 0-9547673-0-6, price in UK £4.99.