The tale began as a short story during a most difficult time. The challenges continued, and so the story grew. Since retiring, Peter Batchelor thought to finish the work and polish it. For him, it became a healthy solution to an unhealthy time in his life.Peter Batchelor's first novel, The Bluff of Virtue, is a similar therapeutic exercise where the work of writing became medicine. 'Things may die, but imagination is eternal' is an elixir he finds worth drinking.
