Gentlemans Relish, Patrick Gale
Gentlemans Relish, Patrick Gale
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Gentleman's Relish
A collection of dark, sometimes funny, carefully observed stories of human nature

Author: Patrick Gale

Narrator: Patrick Gale

Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tinder Press

Published: 12/13/2021

Synopsis

Dark, moving and eccentric, GENTLEMAN'S RELISH is Patrick Gale's second collection of subversive and exhilarating short stories
'The short story form suits Gale's ability to zoom in on the smallest nuances of a relationship'
Kate Saunders, The Times

A lonely prison governor's wife develops a sudden passion for an unexpected hobby; a cookery connoisseur suspects his homophobic father and brothers are attempting to manipulate him and looks for revenge; a grandmother offers hair-raising family tales to her abandoned grandchildren; a sex demon in an old casket gruesomely transforms a honeymooning couple.

In his second collection of short stories, Patrick Gale creates worlds where the making and breaking of relationships -between mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, lovers and strangers -offer unforgettably dark and moving twists to these utterly unpredictable lives.

(P)2021 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

About Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight. He spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, which his father governed, then grew up in Winchester before going to Oxford University. He now lives on a farm near Land's End. One of this country's best-loved novelists, his most recent works are A Perfectly Good Man, the Richard and Judy bestseller Notes From An Exhibition, the Costa-shortlisted A Place Called Winter and Mother's Boy. His original BBC television drama, Man In An Orange Shirt, was shown to great acclaim in 2017 as part of the BBC's Queer Britannia series, leading viewers around the world to discover his novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Doreen on November 07, 2012

Not Patrick Gale's best but I'm not a fan of short stories generally. Some good but some relied too much on unlikely or supernatural plot twists. I prefer his more realistic full length tales driven mostly by character.......more

Goodreads review by fourtriplezed on April 07, 2016

Well that was interesting. Easy to read and an odd kind of antidote to the black arm band history that I tend to devour. I am convinced that most of these yarns and the almost rustic writing style would not have been out of place in an English (not British) high school essay writing competition. But......more

Goodreads review by Huw on November 13, 2015

The short story is a much overlooked medium - it has the ability to entertain, inform and educate us in a very succinct and attractive way. And in this intriguingly titled collection of short stories, Patrick Gayle takes full advantage of the medium - he terrorises, titillates, teaches and teases us......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn on October 09, 2012

I thoroughly enjoyed this book of short stories. The twists in some of the stories make them really enjoyable, especially if you have a dark sense of humour.......more

Goodreads review by Claire on January 23, 2011

Simple twists make you think. Enjoyed the prose in the stories that excelled......more

Quotes

Dark, witty and often obliquely moving, these are tales of difficult fathers and gay sons, of lonely wives and random or deliberate acts of violence ... Gale is interested in power and the lack of it and his stories pull the reader in unexpected ways, offering worlds that are far from certain and where love or its absence can never be predicted Sunday Telegraph

Further evidence of Gale's stylistic deftness, insight and wonderfully eclectic range of interests... Even as rural life and perspectives dominate, other stories consistently tease out fresh territory... worth every penny Independent

Further evidence of Gale's stylistic deftness, insight and wonderfully eclectic range of interests... Even as rural life and perspectives dominate, other stories consistently tease out fresh territory... worth every penny TLS

The short story form suits Gale's ability to zoom in on the smallest nuances of a relationship The Times

Gale's writing is sharply evocative ...[he] writes with such humanity and warmth in his novels that it comes as a surprise that these short stories are told in a different, darker voice Daily Mail

Gentleman's Relish is a hugely enjoyable collection which proves that the short story is still very much alive ... Gale has a distinctive sense of humour and it is not unusual for something sinister to be lurking beneath the apparently unruffled and genteel surface of his narrative ... the stories in Gentleman's Relish adroitly utilise carefully observed details as the background to events that cause the reader to give a delicious shudder of horror at story's end Daily Express

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