Rough Music - Hardcover

Gale, Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345442369 ISBN 13: 9780345442369

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2001

Synopsis

While spending two weeks at a beach house in Cornwall to celebrate his fortieth birthday, Will Pagett begins to recall memories of a summer thirty years earlier as he relives a forgotten act of betrayal from that time.

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Review:

'Like the sea he describes so well, Patrick Gale's clear, unforced prose sucks one in effortlessly ... he is excellent at the telling detail and description.' Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail

'There are no false notes in this book.' Marie Claire

'Rough Music ... is an astute, sensitive and at times tragically uncomfortable meditation on sex, lies and family.... a fabulously unnerving book... a hugely compelling writer.' Independent on Sunday

'It would be churlish to divulge more of the plot, suffice to say that it is as ingenious in design as it is generous in spirit.' Sunday Express

‘Patrick Gale's novels grip tightly, like swaddling clothes, stunning the reader into a state of lolling, contented absorption. How does he do it?' TLS

'Rough Music, like its predecessors, belongs to a broad canon of works by English rural moralists. Think Austen, Hardy or Murdoch ... His plots – seemingly effortless, but closely structured – resemble Iris Murdoch's ... Gripping, elegant and wise, it is Gale's best book to date, and should not be missed.' The Weekend Review, Independent

Book Description:

'Sparkling with emotional intelligence. A gripping portrait of a marriage and quiet, devastating fall-out of family life' Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0345442369
• ISBN 13: 9780345442369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 353