sentences:  "The Palace of the Peacock" (1969) is a Violet Winspear classic.In this story Winspear showcases a Java island and its people with extreme delicacy contributing to both realism and a sense of escapist reading one and the same time for her post-World War II English readers.In "The Palace of the Peacock" (1969) Temple Lane reveals a streak for adventure when she travels to a far away island in the Java Seas in search of her fiancé Nick.