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I can't deny that I have rather a large bias when it comes to Patrick Gale. I stumbled upon a copy of Rough Music as a teenager, and promptly read everything else by him. Somehow, his characters all felt like people I knew well, and the fact that he wrote about interesting, layered characters, some of whom happened to be gay, some did not, helped me immeasurably as a confused teenager, longing for relatable characters in books.
So, it was with 90% trepidation and 10% excitement that I received Patrick Gale's latest novel, ''A Place Called Winter''. What if I hated it? What if I didn't like the historical setting? Would I be able to write a negative review?Thankfully none of those fears were realised. In fact, I may have just found my new favourite Patrick Gale novel...
''A Place called Winter'' is the story of Harry Cane, a young man in Edwardian England. Left with a sizeable inheritance, Harry follows tradition, marrying and raising a young child. A passionate affair, however, forces Harry into exile, separated from all that he knows, and forced to try his hand as a farmer in the plains of Canada.
[[The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch]] is obviously well worth a read, and much like Gale, Murdoch excelled at writing complex characters and seemed to have an innate ability to grasp the psychology of a character.
 
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