# Mother’s Boy

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- Authors: [Patrick Gale](https://www.bookquiver.com/patrick-gale)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2022-03-01

## 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

## Editions

### Mother’s Boy

- Publisher: tinder_press
- ISBN: 978-14-7225-742-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2023-02-02
- Language: en_GB

### Mother’s Boy

- Publisher: tinder_press
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-7225-739-0
- Published: 2022-03-01
- Language: en_GB

### Mother’s Boy

- Publisher: tinder_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7225-740-6
- Published: 2022-03-01
- Language: en_GB