I love Patrick Gale, but struggled initially with this.
The plot is very linear with few of the surprising plot twists that one expects. But I haven’t realised this is a fictional biography of the poet Charles Causley, about whom I know very little. So you have to read it as a fairly straight novel about him and his mother set broadly straddling the two world wars in the last century.
The mother Laura is a charming and lovely working-class woman devoted to her son and the son Charles is a slightly strange character; a bit gay as one would expect but otherwise not a very interesting character.
It is good and beautifully written, but I am not sure I would re-read it.
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