Mother's boy /
Gale, Patrick,
Mother's boy / Patrick Gale. - London, UK : Headline, 2022. - 406 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm.
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius. As an intensely private young man, Charles signs up for the navy with the new rank of coder. His escape from the tight, gossipy confines of Launceston to the colour and violence of war sees him blossom as he experiences not only the possibility of death, but the constant danger of a love that is as clandestine as his work.
9781472257437 9781472257413
Causley, Charles, 1917-2003 --Fiction.
Causley, Charles, 1917-2003--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Poets--England--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Launceston (England)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Cornwall (England : County)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
UK & IRL historical fiction
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
823.92
Mother's boy / Patrick Gale. - London, UK : Headline, 2022. - 406 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm.
Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius. As an intensely private young man, Charles signs up for the navy with the new rank of coder. His escape from the tight, gossipy confines of Launceston to the colour and violence of war sees him blossom as he experiences not only the possibility of death, but the constant danger of a love that is as clandestine as his work.
9781472257437 9781472257413
Causley, Charles, 1917-2003 --Fiction.
Causley, Charles, 1917-2003--Fiction.
Widows--Fiction.
Poets--England--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Launceston (England)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Cornwall (England : County)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
UK & IRL historical fiction
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
823.92
