From beloved, bestselling author Patrick Gale comes Love Lane, a quietly powerful new novel about escape and entrapment, love and loss, and what home and family can truly mean. Set between the rural plains of Canada and 1950s Liverpool and Yorkshire, Love Lane is a standalone novel that revisits characters from Patrick’s Costa-shortlisted novel, A Place Called Winter. Across three generations, it tells a deeply humane story of reckoning and return.

Book now for what is sure to be a truly special evening in the company of much-loved author Patrick Gale.

Love Lane:

When Harry Cane, a veteran Canadian wheat farmer, is forced to sell up and said back to an England reshaped by two world wars, his arrival unsettles the family he abandoned decades earlier – a family for whom he was existed only as a distant myth. His daughter, torn between duty and long-buried anger, reluctantly takes him in. Yet Harry’s presence has unexpected consequences for the next generation: enabling his granddaughter to confront an unspeakable trauma, and allowing her gentle husband, at last, to feel seen for who he truly is.

As Harry faces the question of whether it is possible to make a new life before it is too late, Love Lane becomes a moving meditation on memory, forgiveness, and the fragile bonds that hold families together. 

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Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight and grew up in Winchester before studying at Oxford University. He now lives on a farm near Land’s End. One of the UK’s best-loved novelists, his works include Notes From an Exhibition (a Richard and Judy bestseller), A Perfectly Good Man, Mother’s Boy and the Costa-shortlisted A Place Called Winter. His original BBC drama Man in an Orange Shirt was broadcast to great acclaim in 2017 as part of the BBC’s Queer Britannia season, introducing his work to readers around the world.