Лучшие книги Патрика Гейла

Гарри Зоунт, состоятельный наследник и заботливый старший брат, никогда не чувствовал себя на своем месте в английском обществе будучи молчаливым и несколько застенчивым человеком. Но его формализованную, праздную жизнь главы семьи, которого на самом деле никто не принимает всерьез, меняет опасное и незаконное влечение, которому он поддается вопреки морали и угрозе ареста. Это стоило ему слишком дорого. Отныне он вынужден покинуть жену, ребенка, брата. Оставить позади всю свою прежнюю жизнь. Гарри отправляется в эмиграцию в далекую, мало заселенную Канаду, где его встретят суровые прерии, угроза Первой мировой войны и следующего по ее пятам…

В своей чердачной студии в Пензансе умирает больная маниакальной депрессией художница Рэйчел Келли. После смерти, вместе с ее гениальными картинами, остается ее темное прошлое, которое хранит секреты, на разгадку которых потребуются месяцы. Вся семья собирается вместе и каждый ищет ответы, размышляют о жизни, сформированной загадочной Рэйчел — как творца, жены и матери — и о неоднозначном наследии, которое она оставляет им, о таланте, мучениях и любви. Каждая глава начинается с заметок из воображаемой посмертной выставки работ Рэйчел. Мы не видим примеров работ или вещей Келли, но подробное описание с каждой главой романа дает эффект…

The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller Notes from an Exhibition.

Truly compelling and rich with emotional insight , Patrick Gale's Cornish novel, ROUGH MUSIC is a beautiful story of a marriage and the secrets a family holds. 'Sparkling with emotional intelligence. A gripping portrait of a marriage and the quiet, devastating fall-out of family life' Independent Julian is a contented if naïve only child, and a holiday on the coast of North Cornwall should be perfect, especially when distant American cousins join the party. But their arrival brings upheaval and unexpected turmoil. It is only as a seemingly well-adjusted adult that Julian is able to reflect on the realities of his parents' marriage,…

Celebrated 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.

A vivid and compelling portrait of a man at odds with himself; and an extended family of friends and lovers trying to take its proper shape. Lawrence Frost has neither father nor siblings, and fits so awkwardly into his worldly mother’s life he might have dropped from the sky. Like many such heroes, he grows up happier with plants than people. While he is straightforward, honest, and a doting dad, he can be a difficult, taciturn husband – but he’s the last person one would suspect of being a killer. Waking one morning to find himself branded a wife-beater and under suspicion of murder, his small world falls apart as he loses wife,…

A moving and intensely felt examination of the lengths to which we will go to seek protection and security in others. Returning to haunted Cornish landscapes familiar from other Gale novels, it is the story of individuals in search of a family. Dido, the nine-year-old heroine and emotional centre of Patrick Gale’s painful comedy, knows that the adults who surround her, the adults who should know better, depend on her for happiness. So who is she to turn to when her short life turns upside down and tragic family history threatens to repeat itself? Eliza, the clever, depressive aunt who has brought Dido up, and whose brilliant academic…

A powerful and moving novel in which Patrick Gale casts a compassionate yet satirically sharp eye over the pains and abuses inflicted by families, friends and lovers. Joanna, a Junoesque American photographer, shares a lovely, lonely retreat on Cornwall's Bodmin Moor with her novelist lover, Judith. On an assignment to an African principality, she feels compelled to meet up with Judith's estranged sister, Deborah, whose husband has just been murdered by a bomb meant for someone more important. Impulsively, Joanna rescues Deborah from the respectable compassion of in-laws and brings her back to Cornwall to recuperate, unaware of the…