Friendly Fire - Patrick Gale

Little Bits of Baby - Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale sometimes describes himself as "England's westernmost writer" as he lives on his boyfriend's farm near Land's End in Cornwall. He was born [and I don't want to hear any tittering here] in Camp Hill Prison on the Isle of Wight, where his father was the governor. (Rather embarrassingly, his father was also in charge of Wandsworth jail when Ronnie Biggs escaped.) His first novel, written on the back of an order pad while he was working as a singing waiter, rejoiced in the title: "The Aerodynamics of Pork" and, bizarrely, was published simultaneously with his second novel ("Ease"). He had published seven books by the age ...

Little Bits of Baby - Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale sometimes describes himself as "England's westernmost writer" as he lives on his boyfriend's farm near Land's End in Cornwall. He was born [and I don't want to hear any tittering here] in Camp Hill Prison on the Isle of Wight, where his father was the governor. (Rather embarrassingly, his father was also in charge of Wandsworth jail when Ronnie Biggs escaped.) His first novel, written on the back of an order pad while he was working as a singing waiter, rejoiced in the title: "The Aerodynamics of Pork" and, bizarrely, was published simultaneously with his second novel ("Ease"). He had published seven books by the age ...

Rough Music - Patrick Gale

for her. Both threads of the story come together at the end of the book, in a traumatic climax that will shake the reader. It is the way that Patrick Gale manages to make a connection to each of the characters that gives him the power to shock. ~~my opinion~~ I loved this book for so many different reasons. The way in which Gale describes the smells and the sounds of the sea, and takes you back to every childhood holiday that you remember is amazing. There are no long, lyrical paragraphs, but descriptions of the feeling of salt drying on sun-baked skin, the smell of seaweed, the sounds of crashing waves, are woven through the story so that you hardly notice them, but ...

Rough Music - Patrick Gale

for her. Both threads of the story come together at the end of the book, in a traumatic climax that will shake the reader. It is the way that Patrick Gale manages to make a connection to each of the characters that gives him the power to shock. ~~my opinion~~ I loved this book for so many different reasons. The way in which Gale describes the smells and the sounds of the sea, and takes you back to every childhood holiday that you remember is amazing. There are no long, lyrical paragraphs, but descriptions of the feeling of salt drying on sun-baked skin, the smell of seaweed, the sounds of crashing waves, are woven through the story so that you hardly notice them, but ...

Rough Music - Patrick Gale

To be perfectly honest I bought this book because I liked the cover, it looked relaxing and I personally wanted a break from books like Orwell's 1984 that I had been reading. When I started reading I wondered where exactly the story was heading but I was pleasantly suprised. The book is made up of the life of the central character of Will/Julian and his life as a small boy and when he's a 30 year old man. There is very little room for confusion even though his name does change, as the chapters are named either Blue House or Beachcomber, depending on what time the particular chapter is taking place. In both time scales our central character goes on holiday to Cornwall and ...

Rough Music - Patrick Gale

To be perfectly honest I bought this book because I liked the cover, it looked relaxing and I personally wanted a break from books like Orwell's 1984 that I had been reading. When I started reading I wondered where exactly the story was heading but I was pleasantly suprised. The book is made up of the life of the central character of Will/Julian and his life as a small boy and when he's a 30 year old man. There is very little room for confusion even though his name does change, as the chapters are named either Blue House or Beachcomber, depending on what time the particular chapter is taking place. In both time scales our central character goes on holiday to Cornwall and ...