Giving Myself Permission : Putting Fear and Doubt in Their Place (Paperback)

from CatieN

Will Paget celebrates his 40th birthday and receives from his sister Poppy the gift of a two-week vacation at a beach house in Cornwall. Will has a complicated (putting it mildly) romance going on at the moment so decides to invite his aging parents, John and Frances, to come with him. Frances is...

from oldblack

It's not a perfect book, but I can tell it's a five-star book because I've really slowed down as I approach the end, not wanting it to finish. I judge Patrick Gale to be a very perceptive observer of human relationships. Sure, this novel has the verisimilitude that comes from being based very muc...

from jayne_charles

Another great novel from Patrick Gale who is rapidly becoming one of my favourite authors. Told as a mixture of past and present, it is full of varied interest, so much so that once the main 'twist' had been revealed, some way from the end, an astonishing number of loose ends still remained to be...

from lberriman

Enjoyable easy read.

from LARA335

Beautifully written, and all the characters sensitively portrayed. Alternate chapters show Will holidaying in a Cornish cottage with his parents, as a boy and as a middle-aged man, where illicit affairs have far reaching consequences.