Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale is a keen cellist, gardener, beekeeper and patron of the Penzance LitFest and Charles Causley Trust. He lives with his husband, the farmer and sculptor, Aidan Hicks, on their farm, Trevilley, at the western tip of Cornwall, where they open their garden every June for the National Gardens Scheme. In addition to his latest, Love Lane, his eighteen novels include Mother’s Boy (2022), Take Nothing With You (2018), which was his fourth Sunday Times bestseller, Rough Music (2000), Notes From an Exhibition (2007), A Perfectly Good Man (2012) and A Place Called Winter (2015). In 2017 his two-part drama Man in an Orange Shirt formed part of the BBC’s Gay Britannia season, won the International Emmy for best miniseries and is now being developed as a musical. He is currently working on a stage version of Take Nothing With You and adapting A Place Called Winter for television. He’s a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.