A searing portrayal of escape and the power of love, Patrick Gale’s new work Love Lane features characters from his Costa-shortlisted novel A Place Called Winter.

When veteran Canadian wheat farmer Harry Cane is brutally obliged to sell up and sail home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arrival triggers unwelcome self-examination for the family he abandoned. For them, he has never been more than a distant myth.

Can he stay and make a new life before it’s too late, or will he find himself cast out again, punished for having witnessed and understood too much?

Patrick’s original TV drama, Man In An Orange Shirt, played to great acclaim in 2017 as part of the BBC’s Gay Britannia series, leading viewers around the world to discover his novels. His recent works are A Perfectly Good Man, the Richard and Judy bestseller Notes From An Exhibition, and the Costa shortlisted A Place Called Winter.