“ Gale gets right to the secret joys and hidden heartbreaks of ordinary, flawed family life. ” Sarah Waters
From the rural plains of Canada to 1950s Liverpool and Yorkshire, Love Lane is a searing portrayal of escape and entrapment, and a powerful exploration of what home and family can really be. When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is brutally obliged to sell up and sail home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arrival triggers unwelcome self- examination for the family he abandoned, and for whom he has never been more than a distant myth. Can Harry stay and make a new life before it’s too late, or will he find himself cast out again, punished for having witnessed and understood too much?
Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight and now lives on a farm near Land’s End. His most recent works are A Perfectly Good Man , the Richard and Judy bestseller Notes From An Exhibition, the Costa-shortlisted A Place Called Winter and Mother’s Boy. His original BBC television drama, Man In An Orange Shirt, was shown to great acclaim in 2017 as part of the BBC’s Queer Britannia series.