Love Lane

One of the UK’s most admired and compassionate storytellers, Patrick Gale returns with a powerful new standalone novel, Love Lane. The book revisits characters from his Costa-shortlisted novel A Place Called Winter, weaving a rich and moving story that spans continents and decades.

From the rural plains of Canada to 1950s Liverpool and Yorkshire, Love Lane is a searing portrayal of escape and entrapment, and a powerful exploration of what home and family can really be. Patrick will be in conversation with fellow author and Festival Patron Cathy Rentzenbrink for what promises to be a warm, thoughtful and revealing discussion about storytelling, history and the lives that inspire his fiction.