Taking pity on her, Harry resolves to make her his wife. Georgina is fearless, while Winifred dreams of being invisible. Gale illustrates the difference between the two boys through their choice of sweethearts, sisters Georgina and Winifred Wells. For stammering Harry, it's a minefield of potential embarrassments. For gregarious Jack, life is one big boy's own adventure. His closest companion is his younger brother, though the two aren't remotely alike. A quotation from 1896 informs us that Turkish baths were used in the treatment of mental disorders.Ī few pages later, we meet Harry Cane as a younger man – orphaned but comfortably off, with a nervous disposition and a speech impediment. This is a novel of secrets, sexuality and, ultimately, of great love. A man called Harry is escorted from his room by two sinister male attendants and forcibly plunged into a bath full of water. In this exquisite journey of self-discovery, loosely based on a real life family mystery, Patrick Gale has created an epic, intimate human drama, both brutal and breathtaking. Remote and unforgiving, his allotted homestead in. The opening scene is striking in its brutality. Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. His first for Tinder Press, his first truly historical novel, it begins in Edwardian England before setting sail for the western prairies of Canada. Patrick Gale's eagerly awaited new novel is a departure in many senses.
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