Patrick Gale - Love Lane

Love Lane is a brilliant new standalone novel featuring characters from Patricks Costa-shortlisted novel A Place Called Winter.1950s Northern England.

Three generations of men, two of women.

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 figure.

Can Harry stay and make a new life?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.One of our most highly regarded novelists, Patrick will be in conversation with Tiffany Murray, a Hay Festival Fiction Fellow and old friend of Patricks.