Patrick Gale
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 …
Patrick Gale » The books
She leaves behind her paintings of genius – but she leaves also a legacy of secrets and emotional damage it will take months to unravel. Patrick Gale’s novel is the story of a woman …
Patrick Gale » About Patrick
As well as gardening, he plays both the modern and baroque cello. He is artistic director of the North Cornwall Book Festival, patron of Penzance LitFest and the Charles Causley Trust and …
Patrick Gale » A Place Called Winter
A Place Called Winter combines the backdrop of the stuffy Edwardian drawing room and the rugged and windblown Canadian Prairies with the effects of the Great War and the steely …
Patrick Gale » Mother’s Boy
In Mother’s Boy, by Patrick Gale, we tag a long as WW2 takes him out into the world, as well as into hard battle, but also into the first lustful encounters that need to be kept secret. Extremely …
Patrick Gale » Books
Patrick’s seventeenth novel is his first fully historical one since A Place Called Winter. It is based around the known facts of the boyhood and youth of the great Cornish poet, Charles Causley …
Patrick Gale » The Whole Day Through
The Whole Day Through is a restrained novel, its pitch steady, unremarkable and firmly tethered to reality. Laura Lewis, now in her mid-40s, has moved from a life of independence and dead …
Patrick Gale » Friendly Fire
Patrick Gale’s precise, delicate style in Friendly Fire lends itself well to a story of adolescent turmoil in the hothouse environment of a public school where the narrative, if not the language, …
Patrick Gale » Rough Music
Deeply personal, Patrick’s most overtly autobiographical novel to date, Rough Music’s unsparing portrayal of the painful realities of being a gay child (at whatever age), of unrequited married …
Patrick Gale » A Perfectly Good Man
Returning us to the rugged Cornish landscape of Notes from an Exhibition, Patrick Gale lays bare the lives and the thoughts of a whole community and asks us: what does it mean to be good? …