A Sweet Obscurity by Patrick Gale

A Sweet Obscurity by Patrick Gale

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.

`What is delightful about Gale’s fiction is that it so warmly and convincingly illuminates ordinary lives and interests’ Daily Telegraph

`Exerts the unmistakable force of a novelist in the process of discovering a new, strong voice. With this alarming and technically very skilful romance, he is decidedly a man to watch’ Mail on Sunday

'Flawless. Gale is a master of context and background, flinging wide the perspectives of his dramatic personae with exemplary patience and generosity. In “A Sweet Obscurity”'s world of powerful, vatic females, where men are dreamers or ditherers, Cornwall, so far from being the land of failure, achieves a solidity and integrity whose graces are triumphantly redemptive.' TLS

`This is arguably Gale’s most questioning, troublesome work. It amuses, startles and occasionally bewilders. “A Sweet Obscurity” is worth every minute of your time.’ Independent

`Intriguing and impressive. His greatest strength lies in his sensitive evocation of those transient, often indefinable states that reveal the truth about people's deepest desires and discontents. A memorable study of a child forced cruelly, even tragically, to grow up too soon" Sunday Times

Patrick Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight. He spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, which his father governed, then grew up in Winchester. He now lives on a farm near Land's End.

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ISBN 13	9780007307654
ISBN 10	0007307659
Title	A Sweet Obscurity
Author	Patrick Gale
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2009-05-14
Number of pages	496
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