Patrick Gale
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Patrick Gale

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Patrick Gale is a cellist, gardener and patron of North Cornwall Book Festival, Penzance LitFest and the Charles Causley Trust. He lives with his husband, the farmer and sculptor, Aidan Hicks (aidanhicks dot com), on their farm at Land’s End. In addition to his latest, Love Lane, published on March 26, 2026, his eighteen novels include Mother's Boy (2022), Take Nothing With You (2018), which was his fourth Sunday Times bestseller, Rough Music (2000), Notes From an Exhibition (2007), A Perfectly Good Man (2012) and A Place Called Winter (2015). In 2017 his two part drama Man in an Orange Shirt was screened by BBC2 as part of the Gay Britannia season. Continuing to be broadcast regularly around the world, this won the International Emmy for best miniseries and is now in development as a musical. He is working on a television adaptation of A Place Called Winter and a stage version of Take Nothing With You. Extracts from the BBC documentary All Families Have Secrets – the Narrative Art of Patrick Gale can be seen on his website galewarning dot org. The garden at Trevilley was featured on Gardener's World and is opened under the National Garden Scheme every June.
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    • Mother's Boy

    • A beautifully crafted novel of war, Cornwall, and the relationship between a mother and son
    • By: Patrick Gale
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    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-2022
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    • A searing portrayal of escape and the power of love, home and a family
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    • Series: Harry Cane, Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 26-03-2026
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