Rough Music
Amazon.com paperback
My review -
Julian
grows up a solitary boy, the only child in a rather straight-laced family. His
father is a prison governor and Julian occasionally speaks to the prisoners.
The family take a holiday in a remote seaside bungalow and are joined by his uncle
and cousin. It’s as a result of what happened on that holiday that a repeat of
the experience, when his cousin books the same bungalow proved traumatic for
all, especially his mother with her gathering Alzheimer’s disease.
I’m
a great fan of Patrick Gale’s writing. It’s elegant, sophisticated but not in
the least flowery. It’s what writers should aspire to. He takes apart a family
teetering on the brink of not really knowing each other, or of being in denial
of what they know, and analyses their actions and deeds in an almost forensic
detail. A really great book.
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