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From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER comes MOTHERS BOY a superb historical novel of Cornwall class desire and two world wars
One of the joys of Gales writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed due to a charming wickedness alongside deeper observations Irish Times
Laura an impoverished Cornish girl meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916 They have a baby Charles but Lauras husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow In a small classobsessed town she raises her boy alone working as a laundress and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius
As an intensely private young man Charles signs up for the navy with the new rank of coder His escape from the tight gossipy confines of Launceston to the colour and violence of war sees him blossom as he experiences not only the possibility of death but the constant danger of a love that is as clandestine as his work
MOTHERS BOY is the story of a man who is among yet apart from his fellows in thrall to yet at a distance from his own mother a man being shaped for a long remarkable and revered life spent hiding in plain sight But it is equally the story of the dauntless mother who will continue to shield him long after the dangers of war are past
A writer with heart soul and a dark and naughty wit one whose company you relish and trust Observer
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