A Different Kind of Poverty

About the Book

Set in the 1980s before the age of smart phones, computers and the internet, 24 year old diarist Nicholas narrates the difficulties, tragedies, failed relationships and intellectual obsessions that continually torment him. But then he meets some people who are much worse off than himself.

About the Author

Author, singer-songwriter, dreamer, drifter, environmental campaigner and house-husband Peter G. Brown, after being unable to publish his first novel in the 1980s due to the closed attitude of the publishing industry, decided to self-publish his second novel Strings with Xlibris. He has also released seven albums (see www.lemang.com) and spawned three (now grown-up) kids, and currently lives in Malaysia with his osteopath wife, musical partner and mother of 2 of the kids Markiza.