Rough Music

Paperback original. Large 8vo. Pp. [viii], 374, [1]. Pictorial wraps. Author's Note.

Signed by Gale to title-page.

Author's ninth novel and the most widely held of his books in public libraries. The title is dedicated to his partner, Aidan Hicks. Parallel stories told in alternate chapters and set thirty years apart on the Cornish coast. Gale's most overtly autobiographical novel to date features a lead character who, like the author himself, is the son of a former prison governor. "Sparkling with emotional intelligence. A gripping portrait of a marriage and the quiet, devastating fall-out of family life." –Independent