Tree Surgery for Beginners - Softcover

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Patrick Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and now lives in north Cornwall.

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'TREE SURGERY FOR BEGINNERS' Patrick Gale

"Lawrence Frost is a gauche, likeable tree surgeon with a theatrical mother and a rather frosty wife. When the latter disappears, he is suspected of her murder, and this is the catalyst for a series of adventures, including flight to the Caribbean and an affair with the strapping, six-foot Lala, a Neapolitan transsexual (or is s/he?), all leading to the Redemption of Lawrence. A supporting cast of wonderfully eccentric minor characters adds to the readability and charm. What is delightful about Gale's fiction is that it so warmly and convincingly illuminates ordinary lives and interests."
CHRISTOPHER HART, 'Daily Telegraph'

"'Tree Surgery for Beginners' exerts the unmistakable force of a novelist in the process of discovering a new, strong voice. With this alarming and technically very skilful romance, he is decidedly a man to watch."
PHILIP HENSHER, 'Mail on Sunday'

"Lawrence's natural condition is a frustrated inarticulacy… Gale's own voice, by contrast, is elegant and elusive… The paraphernalia of 'Tree Surgery for Beginners' may be of the moment – a world of gyms, psychotherapists and New Age havens – but the hopefulness of the narrative and the solidity of its central character make it a lasting creation."
DAVID HORSPOOL, 'TLS'

"A tribute to Patrick Gale's mastery of narrative… consistently entertaining but also, in places, quietly moving. The deracinated hero, with his existential despair, is very well done; while the women who buttress his fragile ego are also delineated with skill and feeling."
JULIA FLYNN, 'Sunday Telegraph'