Patrick Gale

Encompassing several fictional genres – family saga, gay love story, adulterous love affair – Patrick Gale’s excellent new novel
is, more than anything, a marvellous, page-turning, edge-of-your-seat story – Gale’s ability to evoke the emotional onslaught of love, the subtle awakening of sexual passion and the encroaching terrors of old age and illness are extraordinary – there are no false notes in this book.