TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gale,Patrick
TI  - Mother's boy
SN  - 9781472257437
U1  - 823.92 23/eng/20220322
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London, UK
PB  - Headline
KW  - Causley, Charles,
KW  - Causley, Charles, 1917-2003
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Widows
KW  - Poets
KW  - England
KW  - Social classes
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Single mothers
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Launceston (England)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cornwall (England : County)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - UK & IRL historical fiction
KW  - Biographical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - 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
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