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|title=Under a Canvas Sky: Living Outside Gormenghast

|author=Clare Peake

|publisher=Constable

|date=April 2012

|summary=A memoir of the daughter and youngest child of author and artist Mervyn Peake, recounting her childhood and teenage years and also the family life and tragic breakdown in her father's physical and mental health.

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To many of us, the very name Peake on the cover of a book will immediately suggest the creator of ‘Gormenghast’ and his family. We have had the occasional biography of Mervyn Peake from others, plus the recollections of his widow Maeve, and to join them, here is the story from another perspective altogether – that of their youngest child, daughter Clare.