Mother's Boy: A beautifully crafted novel of war, Cornwall, and the relationship between a mother and son Patrick Gale Tinder Press 0202

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\'Tender, evocative\' TLS\'Richly engaging\' SpectatorA Radio 4 Serial Fiction Book of the Week \'A characteristically tender novel about a young man growing up in the shadow of one war and the whispers of the next\' Observer\'A wonderful novel about relationships, particularly between a mother and son. A compelling read, beautifully crafted and sensitively written\' Irish Examiner_______Laura, a laundress, meets her young husband when they are both placed in service in Teignmouth in 1914. They have a baby, Charles, but his father returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave Laura a widow.As a new war looms, Charles signs up for the navy as a coder. His escape from the tight, gossipy confines of Launceston to a more colourful life in action sees him blossom, as he experiences the possibility of death, and the excitement - even terror - of a love that is as clandestine as his work._______\'Stands with the best queer literary fiction of a historical bent, illuminated as it is by Gale\'s devilish wit and talent for both social observation and intricacies of character\' Sydney Morning Herald \'A wonderful novel - a touching, utterly convincing portrait of the nascent artist\' Mail on Sunday\'A deeply moving novel. The portrait of a complex relationship that constricted as much as it sustained is brilliantly done\' The Tablet Σελίδες: 416, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0202, Διαστάσεις: 12.8x12.8cm

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