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Peter Merrens

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It takes some time to prise out the elements of Peter's past that influence his writing. That his rootstock is Armenian and Jewish in equal measure might, as he puts it, have given him "a better instinct for running and hiding than most". That he was raised in Sri Lanka, India, Canada, Singapore and the UK might give him a broad cultural facility.

That he would holiday with his parents in Moscow at the height of the Cold War — until his father was mysteriously killed in a shooting 'accident' when he was 12. That in his early years he would make ends meet by gathering up discarded vegetables from a west London street market, but subsequently built a career that led him to work in a dozen countries, learn multiple languages and live in the UK
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