Patrick Gale
Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight and grew up in Winchester, before attending Oxford. He lives on a farm near Land’s End. A beloved UK novelist, his recent works include A Perfectly Good Man, The Whole Day Through, and the bestseller Notes from an Exhibition. His latest novel, A Place Called Winter, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize, the Walter Scott Prize, and the Independent Booksellers’ Novel of the Year award.
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A Place Called Winter
- By: Patrick Gale
- Narrator: Patrick Gale
- Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 22, 2016
- Language: English
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4.12(4760 ratings)
A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair 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 signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. Remote and unforgiving, his allotted homestead in a place called Winter is a world away from the golden suburbs of turn-of-the-century Edwardian England. And yet it is here, isolated in a seemingly harsh landscape, under the threat of war, madness and an evil man of undeniable magnetism that the fight for survival will reveal in Harry an inner strength and capacity for love beyond anything he has ever known before.
In this exquisite journey of self-discovery, loosely based on a real life family mystery, Patrick Gale has created an epic, intimate human drama, both brutal and breathtaking. This is a novel of secrets, sexuality and, ultimately, of great love.
Notes from an Exhibition
- By: Patrick Gale
- Narrator: Joan Walker
- Length: 10 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 20, 2016
- Language: English
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3.87(7502 ratings)
When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies she leaves behind an extraordinary body of work – but for her family there is a legacy of secrets and painful revelations. To her children she is both curse and blessing, as they cope with the inheritance of her passions – and demons. Only their father’s gift of stillness can withstand Rachel’s destructive influence and the suspicion that her family came second to her art. Piecing together the clues of her life – as artist, lover, mother, wife and patient – takes the reader from Cornwall to Canada across a span of forty years. What emerges is a tender story of enduring love, and a portrait of a family coping with the sometimes too dazzling brilliance of a genius.
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