An Evening with Patrick Gale

About this event

Patrick Gale is back with his quietly devastating new novel, Love Lane. Come and listen to Patrick talk about his new book and meet the author himself!

A reunion. A journey. A longing for a place called home...

When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is obliged to sell up and sail home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arrival triggers unwelcome self-examination for the family he abandoned, and for whom he has never been more than a distant myth.

His daughter feels duty bound to take him in but is riven with doubt and ambushed by a long buried anger she has never before expressed. Harry's effect on the next generation is less predictable, and enables his granddaughter to deal with an unspeakable trauma, while her gentle husband feels seen for who he truly is.

Can Harry stay and make a new life before it's too late, or will he find himself cast out again, punished for having witnessed and understood too much?

Love Lane is a searing portrayal of escape and entrapment, and a powerful exploration of what home and family can really be.

Patrick will discuss Love Lane before an audience Q&A and book signing.

A bestselling British novelist, Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight. Before becoming a writer, Gale made his living with a series of odd jobs including, he writes, being ‘a typist, a singing waiter, a ghost-writer for an encyclopedia of the musical and… a book reviewer’.

His first two novels, The Aerodynamics of Pork and Ease were published on the same day in 1986. Since then his books have included: Dangerous Pleasures, Rough Music, Notes from an Exhibition, The Whole Day Through, A Perfectly Good Man, A Place Called Winter and Take Nothing With You.

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