{"product_id":"mother-s-boy-book-patrick-gale-9781472257437","title":"Mother's Boy","description":"'Tender, evocative' TLS  'Richly engaging' Spectator  A 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","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49510649528593,"sku":"GOR012298620","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569079853329,"sku":"GOR011803190","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49590292349201,"sku":"GOR012549577","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/147225743X.jpg?v=1750988519","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/mother-s-boy-book-patrick-gale-9781472257437","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}