Rough Music - Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale

Category: Adults

Tags: Adults, Literature, Gay, LGBT

Listening Length: 12 hours and 40 minutes, A graceful book about family life. Patrick Gale delivers the complexities and nuance of relationships in describing the life of this family, so carefully built and beautifully flawed. A gripping and unnerving story of a familys secrets and lies, from the bestselling author of Notes from an Exhibition and A Perfectly Good Man., Blurb, In the late 1960s, aged seven, Julian is taken on the perfect beachside holiday to North Cornwall. When American cousins unexpected join the party, however, emotions rapidly reach fever pitch and events spiral dangerously out of control., Though he has been raised in the shadow of the prison his father runs, and though his parents are neither as normal nor as happy as he supposes, Julians world view is the sunnily selfish one of boyhood. It is only when he becomes a man - seemingly at easy with love, with his sexuality, with his ghosts - that the traumatic effects of that distant summer rise up to challenge his de