Writing and Breathing: a podcast about why, how, and what we write
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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 bestsellers Notes From An Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man , the Costa nominated A Place Called Winter and his fourth Sunday Times bestseller, Take Nothing With You .
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 and the life of the mother who raised him singlehandedly. Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura’s husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave h
Patrick will be making a visit to Earls Barton Library. He’ll be talking about the great Cornish poet, Charles Causley, and the way his repressed sexuality and traumatic experiences in the Navy in WW2 made him the incredible poet he became. He’ll als …
Writing and Breathing: a podcast about why, how, and what we write