Over the past four decades Patrick Gale has built an international reputation for writing beautifully crafted literary fiction that combines intimate character studies with broader social themes. His novels and short stories explore family relationships, forbidden love, identity, and the long-term impact of secrets. His latest novel, Love Lane, picks up where 2015’s A Place Called Winter left off. It continues the fictionalised story of Patrick’s great-grandfather, Harry Kane, who was exiled from a privileged life in Edwardian England to eke out an existence as a homesteader on the newly colonized Western prairies of Canada. Using boxes of letters that he inherited decades later, Patrick explores the impact of Harry’s long absence and eventual return to England in the 1950s, to piece together what his family left unsaid. Join Patrick and Red as they explore the history of the homesteaders, prison life for those outside the bars, and double standards around sex and sexuality.
Over the past four decades Patrick Gale has built an international reputation for writing beautifully crafted literary fiction that combines intimate character studies with broader social themes. His novels and short stories explore family relationships, forbidden love, identity, and the long-term impact of secrets.
His latest novel, Love Lane, picks up where 2015’s A Place Called Winter left off. It continues the fictionalised story of Patrick’s great-grandfather, Harry Kane, who was exiled from a privileged life in Edwardian England to eke out an existence as a homesteader on the newly colonized Western prairies of Canada.
Using boxes of letters that he inherited decades later, Patrick explores the impact of Harry’s long absence and eventual return to England in the 1950s, to piece together what his family left unsaid.
Join Patrick and Red as they explore the history of the homesteaders, prison life for those outside the bars, and double standards around sex and sexuality.