Welcome to the website of Patrick Gale, author of the Emmy award-winning BBC drama, Man in an Orange Shirt and of novels including The Whole Day Through, the Richard and Judy bestsellers Notes From An Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man, the Costa nominated A Place Called Winter and his fourth Sunday Times bestseller, Take Nothing With You. Please note that Patrick is currently lying low to write his sequel to A Place Called Winter, Love Lane, which is due for publication in March 2026. If you’d like him to talk about that at your bookshop or book festival, by all means lodge an invitation with joe.thomas@headline.co.uk but for 2026!
Patrick and Aidan’s garden at Trevilley, the westernmost rose garden in the country, has been featured on Gardener’s World and in Tim Hubbard’s beautiful book, Cornwall’s Secret Gardens. You can visit it in June 2025 to help raise money for the National Garden Scheme’s charities. To watch a short feature on it on BBC Gardeners World click here and go to 20.50 minutes into the episode.To find out more, click here.
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Love Lane
1950s Northern England. Three generations of men, two of women. And A PLACE CALLED WINTER’s Harry Cane has returned from Canada….
When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is brutally 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?
From the rural plains of Canada to 1950s Liverpool and Yorkshire, LOVE LANE is a searing portrayal of escape and entrapment, and a powerful exploration of what home and family can really be.
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