Love Lane

About the show

Join the acclaimed author, Patrick Gale at Bromley House Library to discuss his profound and intensely atmospheric new novel - Love Lane.

A reunion. A journey. A longing for a place called home... When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is 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. Love Lane is a searing portrayal of escape and entrapment, and a powerful exploration of what home and family can really be.

With Love Lane, Gale gets right to the secret joys and hidden heartbreaks of ordinary, flawed family life. A tender, delicately devastating novel - Sarah Waters Patrick Gale brings his usual compassionate sympathy, impeccable research and elegant style to his powerful new novel.

Love Lane is an involving story of reconciliation, secrets and compromises, rich in emotional truth and evocative historical detail - Clare Chambers