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20240123100235.0
211130t20222022xxka er 000 1 eng d
9781472257437
9781472257413
(OCoLC)1285508102
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823.92
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Gale, Patrick,
author.
11445
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.
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.
925
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.
lcgft
20145
Historical fiction.
lcgft
30
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