Patrick Gale: Mother's Boy. signed hardback

UK 1^st edition 1^st print hardback.

Published by Tinder Press in 2022.

The book is fine, new and unread.

The unclipped wrap is fine.

Signed on an insert page

Patrick Gale takes the known facts of cherished Cornwall poet and playwright, Charles Causley and, with richly imagined detail and gorgeous prose, brings this intensely private man to vivid life. Causley’s beloved mother, Laura, too is depicted as a woman of depth and strength. Gale’s descriptive prose is so beautiful and evocative, it’s hard to limit the quotes; of Causley’s earliest memory: “As an old man famous for his sensitivity, discretion, wit and discipline, he will secretly inspect this memory at intervals and do so with professional envy. The baby in his cot may be quite passive and vulnerable to the whims of others, but he is also quite safe and will never again be so receptive; he is all ear, all eye, no judgement, no defensive irony.”

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