Patrick Gale: Mother's Boy

UK 2022, 416 pp., brochure, € 21.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Tree Surgery for Beginners

UK 2018, 302 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Tinder Press
When Lawrence Frost wakes up one morning to discover his wife and child have gone missing, there is gruesome evidence to suggest he may be the main suspect in a murder investigation. Confused, threatened with the loss of everything he loves, Lawrence is sent to the Caribbean on a kill-or-cure cruise. On board and ashore he will discover love, deceit, ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Take Nothing With You

UK 2019, 352 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Headline
Fifty-something Eustace, a gay Londoner of leisure, realizes in the same week that he has fallen hopelessly in love with a man he has yet to meet in the flesh, and that he has cancer of the thyroid. While being given radioactive iodine therapy, which involves spending a little over 24 hours in a lead-lined hospital suite wearing only disposable ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: A Place Called Winter

UK 2015, 368 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hachette
A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, gay Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair with another handsome man do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything. Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Gentleman's Relish

UK 2009, 264 pp., hardbound, € 20.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Patrick Gale's new collection of stories combines wit and poignancy to illuminate experiences both common and uncommon. Love (and loathing) within families are dissected: a father makes an unexpected discovery about his son which is too hard to cope with. A son wreaks revenge through the power of cookery. Three generations of the same family gain freedom through the years ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Notes from an Exhibition

UK 2008, 374 pp., pb, € 11.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Gifted Canadian artist Rachel Kelly is a whirlwind of creative highs and anguished, crippled lows. She's also something of an enigma to her gentle and loving Cornish husband and four children. Her whole life has been a sacrifice to both her extraordinary art and her debilitating manic depression. So when she is found dead in her attic studio in Penzance, ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: Friendly Fire

UK 2006, 342 pp., pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Youthful beauty, intellectual brilliance, physical passion, tragedy and disgrace are all in this wonderful novel as told through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl. Sophie is a self-contained, exceptionally bright child who has no known parents and has spent all her life in a children's home. Her life is transformed when she wins a scholarship to Tatham's, a kind of ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Gale: A Sweet Obscurity

UK 2003, 472 pp., brochure, € 11.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Dido, the 9-year-old heroine and emotional centre of Patrick Gale's latest painful comedy, knows that the adults who surround her, the adults who should know better, depend on her for happiness. So who is she to turn to when her short life turns upside down and tragic family history threatens to repeat itself? Eliza, the clever, depressive young aunt who ... Weiterlesen