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Patrick Gale at Marlborough Literature Festival

It’s been a long time since I attended a literary festival in person rather than online. Four of us from my book club went along yesterday evening to the headline event of Marlborough Literature Festival. Marlborough is a pleasant market town in Wiltshire about 40 minutes from Newbury, and I’d like to get back to it sometime soon when things are open so I can explore its secondhand and plastic-free shops.

Patrick Gale closed the festival by speaking about his new novel (his 17th), Mother’s Boy. I knew it was a historical novel that covered the Second World War, but I had no idea that it was based on a real person, poet Charles Causley. With Andrew Motion, Gale is a patron of the Charles Causley Trust, which runs an annual poetry competition for children. I hadn’t heard of Causley, but Gale and some members of the audience recall memorizing his poems in school – like Roald Dahl’s, they can have a wicked sense of humour. Causley also wrote in the style of traditional ballads; my husband knows a version of one on a folk album.

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Notes from an Exhibition

May 29, 2016

At first I wondered if this novel was going to be just another telling of a dysfunctional family where the children return home after the death of a parent and make peace with their past and each other . But this was different - it was definitely not predictable. The center of the story is Rachel Kelly, an artist who is bipolar. The narrative moves back and forth in time, not in chronological order, from multiple points of view - Rachel , her husband Anthony, a stoic and devout Quaker , their four children , and others , each beginning with a description of one of her works.

There are poignant moments when her youngest son carries home from the beach stones representing each of the family members and doesn't want to leave any behind even the heavier ones because "it's us." There are sad moments when a traditional birthday celebration with Rachel and each of her children turn out not as happy as we would have hoped . There are learning moments as I knew very little about Quakerism. Their individual stories unfold slowly through their chapters

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TWELVE. Patrick Gale

"TWELVE. Patrick Gale". Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists, New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2001, pp. 399-440. https://doi.org/10.7312/cann11694-012

(2001). TWELVE. Patrick Gale. In Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists (pp. 399-440). New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/cann11694-012

2001. TWELVE. Patrick Gale. Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, pp. 399-440. https://doi.org/10.7312/cann11694-012

"TWELVE. Patrick Gale" In Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists, 399-440. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2001. https://doi.org/10.7312/cann11694-012

TWELVE. Patrick Gale. In: Gay Fiction Speaks: Conversations with Gay Novelists. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press; 2001. p.399-440. https://doi.org/10.7312/cann11694-012

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