Mary And Her Seven Devils

About Peter Morris

Peter Morris, the author of a number of novels and a retired anaesthetist, has lived and worked in Britain, Scandinavia and Europe.

Here he writes in the first person, boldly penetrating – he hopes – the labyrinth of the female psyche in its late teens, as his heroine – a modern-day university student – struggles with the deceptions and dualities of persona on offer and is tempted by that attitude of quasi-jurisdiction over others which is so in-vogue.

His real objective though, is not to unpick any feminine impulse, but to emphasise the absolute necessity of finding your true self; as Shakespeare says in Hamlet, ‘To thine own self be true,’ or as the Delphic Oracle would have it, ‘Know thyself.’