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The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller Notes from an Exhibition.

A vivid and compelling portrait of a man at odds with himself; and an extended family of friends and lovers trying to take its proper shape.

Lawrence Frost has neither father nor siblings, and fits so awkwardly into his worldly mother’s life he might have dropped from the sky. Like many such heroes, he grows up happier with plants than people. While he is straightforward, honest, and a doting dad, he can be a difficult, taciturn husband – but he’s the last person one would suspect of being a killer.

Waking one morning to find himself branded a wife-beater and under suspicion of murder, his small world falls apart as he loses wife, daughter, liberty, livelihood and, almost, his mind.

Celebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with the creative highs and devastating lows that have coloured her life. Her family gathers, each of them searching for answers. They reflect on lives shaped by the enigmatic Rachel - as artist, wife and mother - and on the ambiguous legacies she leaves them, of talent, torment and transcendent love.

A collection of Patrick Gale's most brilliant pieces of short fiction. The subjects are wide-ranging and various -- curious childhood loyalties, long-hidden memories, newly discovered joys, startling secrets, dislocated relationships, overwhelming, thrilling passions. In prose which is vivid and fresh, Patrick Gale explores the subtle boundaries that shift between the fantastic and shockingly real. With characteristic insight and wit and with consummate ease, he draws the reader into lives both familiar and strange, revealing a world that shines with possibilities and will never fail to delight.

Domina Tey is a playwright, celebrated by friends, her husband, and the public alike, yet she fears losing her vital edge. Her solution: to leave her beautiful home in Bristol and seek adventure in a squalid West London bedsit, where she will live under an assumed name with only her typewriter for companionship. Once installed, however, she can't resist meddling in the business of others, forgetting that blurring fact with fiction can be a dangerous game.

Laura, a laundress, meets her young husband when they are both placed in service in Teignmouth in 1914. They have a baby, Charles, but his father returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave Laura a widow.
As a new war looms, Charles signs up for the navy as a coder. His escape from the tight, gossipy confines of Launceston to a more colourful life in action sees him blossom, as he experiences the possibility of death, and the excitement - even terror - of a love that is as clandestine as his work.

Three Decades of Stories is a unique collection of Patrick Gale's two volumes of dark, moving, often witty and eccentric stories, Gentleman's Relish and Dangerous Pleasures. It also includes the acclaimed long story, Caesar's Wife.
Ranging from a lonely prisoner governor's wife, to a housewife desperate for a makeover; a father's trip to his former school to a long-term mistress offered an unexpected marriage, this is a volume that highlights Patrick Gale's skill of digging beneath the surface of relationships and exposing the often brutal mechanisms that drive them.

American Professor Evan Kirby, moving to Barrowcester to research Paradise after a successful book on Hell, expects a very English cathedral society of gentle clergymen and coffee mornings. What he finds instead is a town thrown into chaos by strange, supernatural events, scandalous pregnancies and a Satanic summoning of a young feral girl.

Гарри Зоунт, состоятельный наследник и заботливый старший брат, никогда не чувствовал себя на своем месте в английском обществе будучи молчаливым и несколько застенчивым человеком. Но его формализованную, праздную жизнь главы семьи, которого на самом деле никто не принимает всерьез, меняет опасное и незаконное влечение, которому он поддается вопреки морали и угрозе ареста. Это стоило ему слишком дорого. Отныне он вынужден покинуть жену, ребенка, брата. Оставить позади всю свою прежнюю жизнь. Гарри отправляется в эмиграцию в далекую, мало заселенную Канаду, где его встретят суровые прерии, угроза Первой мировой войны и следующего по ее пятам…

В своей чердачной студии в Пензансе умирает больная маниакальной депрессией художница Рэйчел Келли.
После смерти, вместе с ее гениальными картинами, остается ее темное прошлое, которое хранит секреты, на разгадку которых потребуются месяцы. Вся семья собирается вместе и каждый ищет ответы, размышляют о жизни, сформированной загадочной Рэйчел — как творца, жены и матери — и о неоднозначном наследии, которое она оставляет им, о таланте, мучениях и любви.
Каждая глава начинается с заметок из воображаемой посмертной выставки работ Рэйчел. Мы не видим примеров работ или вещей Келли, но подробное описание с каждой главой романа дает эффект ретроспективы ее искусства с ключевыми эпизодами в ее жизни. Возникает драматическая и сложная история одной женщины с ее преданностью искусству и соотношением между гениальностью и психическими заболеваниями.
Роман Патрика Гейла — это история женщины, которую он назвал «моей самой страшной матерью на сегодняшний день». Она гений, любящая жена и мать, верный друг, но ее мучает биполярное расстройство — наносить ущерб всем, кто пытается любить и защищать ее.
Возрастные ограничения: 18+

From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER comes a new novel of boyhood, coming of age, and the confusions of desire and reality. For all readers of Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT or L P Hartley's THE GO-BETWEEN.

1970s Weston-Super-Mare and ten-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother's quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music-making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. He laps up lessons from his young teacher, not noticing how her brand of glamour is casting a damaging spell over his frustrated and controlling mother.

When he is enrolled in holiday courses in the Scottish borders, lessons in love, rejection and humility are added to daily practice.

Drawing in part on his own boyhood, Patrick Gale's new novel explores a collision between childish hero worship and extremely messy adult love lives.