Notes from an Exhibition

Name: Notes from an Exhibition
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Patrick Gale
ISBN: 9781520048963

Author: Patrick Gale

Narrator: Joan Walker

Unabridged: 10 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 12/20/2016

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies she leaves behind an extraordinary body of work - but for her family there is a legacy of secrets and painful revelations. To her children she is both curse and blessing, as they cope with the inheritance of her passions - and demons. Only their father's gift of stillness can withstand Rachel's destructive influence and the suspicion that her family came second to her art. Piecing together the clues of her life - as artist, lover, mother, wife and patient - takes the reader from Cornwall to Canada across a span of forty years. What emerges is a tender story of enduring love, and a portrait of a family coping with the sometimes too dazzling brilliance of a genius.

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 Baba

“You don’t get over sorrow; you work your way right to the centre of it.” ― Patrick Gale, Notes from an Exhibition. The writing was seamless and almost hypnotic as it took me into the heart and mind of Rachel Kelly, a tortured bipolar artist (captured so well), her past, her family, her art and the na......more

Goodreads review by Angela M is taking a break.

At first I wondered if this novel was going to be just another telling of a dysfunctional family where the children return home after the death of a parent and make peace with their past and each other . But this was different - it was definitely not predictable. The center of the story is Rachel Ke......more

Goodreads review by Kaye

I don't want to say too much about this - it should be a discovery that all readers make on their own, with no preconceptions. It's not easy to categorise - it's not a romance, although there are romantic elements. It's not a biography, although at times it feels like one and from the author's notes......more

Goodreads review by Kirsty

Some books are great and you want to turn the pages faster and faster because you are so enjoying reading them but then other books are really fabulous and you want to turn the pages slower and slower to make them last. This story is one of the latter. Only when I discovered that Patrick Gale has a......more