Christmas in Cornwall is just around the corner…
But after last Christmas revealed a shocking family secret, Scarlett’s
...Keeley Andrews knows more than anyone that you only live once...
So when she receives an invitation to spend two weeks
... Sophie Apperly decides she's had enough & decides to swap Little England for the Big Apple.
From the moment Sophie
The new novel from Patrick Gale, author of Richard & Judy-bestseller ? Notes from an Exhibition?, returning readers to his beloved Cornish coastline. ? Do you need me to pray for you now for a specific reason?? ?I?m going to die.? ? We?re all going to die. Does dying frighten you?? ?I mean I?m going to kill myself.? When 20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish, the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby & his nearest & dearest ? the gulfs of unspoken sadness that separate them all. Across this web of relations scuttles Barnaby's repellent nemesis ? a man as wicked as his prey is virtuous. Returning us to the rugged Cornish landscape of ? Notes from an Exhibition?, Patrick Gale lays bare the lives & the thoughts of a whole community & asks us: what does it mean to be good?