So while her mother locks out Pea out of her world and cocoons herself in a depressive haze, Pea roams the meadows, eats fruit where she finds it, splashes through rivulets, spends hours under the summer sun tracking etangs (insects), stares at the wind turbines in the distance and escapes to her secret hideaway, the girls nest. The Southern French countryside, most evocatively described in all its sultry, lazy, blue-skied beauty by King, is where Pea chooses to roam, staking the territory as her own. With a recently widowed, heavily-pregnant mother who could not be bothered to get up from bed and take care of her, Pea runs wild, literally. Pea or Peony or Pivoine is the charming five-year-old protagonist of Claire King's debut novel.
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