Rough Music
- Author Patrick Gale
- Narrator Patrick Gale
- Publisher Headline
- Run Time 12 hours and 39 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
Truly compelling and rich with emotional insight , Patrick Gale's Cornish novel, ROUGH MUSIC is a beautiful story of a marriage and the secrets a family holds.
'Sparkling with emotional intelligence. A gripping portrait of a marriage and the quiet, devastating fall-out of family life' Independent
Julian is a contented if naïve only child, and a holiday on the coast of North Cornwall should be perfect, especially when distant American cousins join the party. But their arrival brings upheaval and unexpected turmoil.
It is only as a seemingly well-adjusted adult that Julian is able to reflect on the realities of his parents' marriage, and to recognise that the happy, cheerful boyhood he thought was his is infused with secrets, loss and the memory of betrayals that have shaped his life.
(P)2017 Patrick Gale
'Sparkling with emotional intelligence. A gripping portrait of a marriage and the quiet, devastating fall-out of family life' Independent
Julian is a contented if naïve only child, and a holiday on the coast of North Cornwall should be perfect, especially when distant American cousins join the party. But their arrival brings upheaval and unexpected turmoil.
It is only as a seemingly well-adjusted adult that Julian is able to reflect on the realities of his parents' marriage, and to recognise that the happy, cheerful boyhood he thought was his is infused with secrets, loss and the memory of betrayals that have shaped his life.
(P)2017 Patrick Gale
Critics Review
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Sparkling with emotional intelligence. A gripping portrait of a marriage and quiet, devastating fall-out of family life
Independent -
A subtle, highly evocative tale of memory and desire
Mail on Sunday -
Like the sea he describes so well, Patrick Gale’s clear, unforced prose sucks one in effortlessly
Daily Mail -
A painfully acute but never reproachful examination of a past that will not vanish
Daily Telegraph -
A real craftsman, a master storyteller
Independent on Sunday
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