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Fiction of Gay Interest
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Plot / Content: Rating: g "Edward Pepper, a young composer, is exiled from his native Germany by the war and, struck down with TB, is left to languish in an isolation hospital far from family and friends. Then his world is transformed when he falls in love with his doctor, Sally Banks. "The couple set up home in the most extraordinary wedding present anyone could receive - a bizarre dodecahedral folly in the remote East Anglian fens. The Roundel is a potent place which grows in significance as it bears witness to the greatest dramas life can hold - the birth of their child, an epic storm, an illicit affair, the fever of first love, the toll of dark memories and the thrill of unexpected joy. "The years pass and Edward watches from his inspirational sanctuary as his daughter and her children try to come to terms with some of the tougher facts of life. As both his grandchildren fall prey to the charms of Sam, an enigmatic young builder, the bonds of love which bind them are tested to the limit. While Alison searches deep within her soul for the elusive fulfilment independence has failed to provide, her carefree brother Jamie discovers that winning this particular sibling battle is not without its price . . ." (from the jacket) Background / Biography: Patrick Gale (born 1962, Isle of Wight) is a British author who lives in Cornwall. continued on Wikipedia Gale's website Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"She heard him before she saw him. She was on her round of Godiva Ward, checking on the children, listening to coughs, peering into pinched, white faces, tapping and listening at scrawny chests, when the sound of piano-playing reached her from the day room. There was an old grant piano there, half hidden by potted palms, one of several vestiges of the hospital's former grandeur as a superior hotel. It was rarely tuned and suffered from sea air, being surrounded by so many open windows. Someone accompanied the carols on it at Christmas, the children played musical statues to it at birthday parties and occasionally a charitable local artiste would subject them to a recital of pieces with evocative titles like War March of the Priests, Rustle of Spring or Moscow Bells. Pub-style sing-songs were, of course, out of the question, iven the ragged state of most inmates' lungs, but patients chancing on the venerable instrument for the first time sometimes lifted the lid out of curiosity to pick out a melody with one erratic finger. Vera Lynn songs were popular - White Cliffs of Dover and We'll Meet Again - but Sally had noticed that it was the older, less overtly morale-boosting songs that people thumped out time and again - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes or You've Got me Crying Again." opening paragraph |
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