This book is complete perfection

This book is complete perfection

Poised and pitch-perfect throughout

Mail on Sunday

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Poised and pitch-perfect throughout

Mail on Sunday

Dense, thought-provoking, sensitive, satisfying, humorous, humane - a real treat

Daily Telegraph

Dense, thought-provoking, sensitive, satisfying, humorous, humane - a real treat

Daily Telegraph

As rich and inventive as we would expect from this brilliant author

Independent

As rich and inventive as we would expect from this brilliant author

Independent

An uplifting, immensely empathetic novel, and Gale's prose, as ever is as clear and bright as the Cornish light

Guardian

An uplifting, immensely empathetic novel, and Gale's prose, as ever is as clear and bright as the Cornish light

Guardian

'Poised and pitch-perfect throughout' Mail on SundaySet in Cornwall, the bestselling novel of artistic compulsion, marriage, and the secrets left behind. 'This book is complete perfection' Stephen FryCelebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with the creative highs and devastating lows that have coloured her life. Her family gathers, each of them searching for answers. They reflect on lives shaped by the enigmatic Rachel - as artist, wife and mother - and on the ambiguous legacies she leaves them, of talent, torment and transcendent love.'An uplifting, immensely empathetic novel' GuardianWhat readers love about NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION:' A shifting, multi-layered, beautifully textured portrait of not-quite ordinary family life' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'The word that shimmers with me is empathy. Gale has such a sensitive understanding of how minds and hearts work and react on one another amid the chaos and sometimes intense joys of real living' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'I loved the exhibition-style notes at the beginning of each chapter, which heralded a hint of the chapter's contents. Beautifully woven back and forth in time to reveal the complexities of fascinating family members and their relationships' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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An emotionally absorbing, psychologically intuitive Cornish set novel of artistic compulsion, marriage, and the secrets left behind.
This book is complete perfectionPoised and pitch-perfect throughout, this is an engrossing portrait of a troubled and remarkable character. A fine writer at the top of his game - Mail on SundayThis is an uplifting, immensely empathetic novel, and Gale's prose, as ever is as clear and bright as the Cornish light - GuardianIt has the kind of quietly radiant intelligence, craft and integrity that bypasses superficial questions of originality. A novel with a variety and freshness that is all the more powerful and surprising for being discovering in such a circumscribed and very English milieu - Sunday Times
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781472255389
Publisert
2018-04-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Tinder Press
Vekt
291 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Forfatter

Biographical note

Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight. He spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, which his father governed, then grew up in Winchester before going to Oxford University. He now lives on a farm near Land's End. One of this country's best-loved novelists, his most recent works are A Perfectly Good Man, the Richard and Judy bestseller Notes From An Exhibition, the Costa-shortlisted A Place Called Winter and Mother's Boy. His original BBC television drama, Man In An Orange Shirt, was shown to great acclaim in 2017 as part of the BBC's Queer Britannia series, leading viewers around the world to discover his novels.