Take Nothing with You
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Take Nothing with You
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Patrick Gale
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Patrick Gale
About this listen
From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER comes a new novel of boyhood, coming of age, and the confusions of desire and reality. For all readers of Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT or L P Hartley's THE GO-BETWEEN.
1970s Weston-Super-Mare and ten-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother's quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music-making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. He laps up lessons from his young teacher, not noticing how her brand of glamour is casting a damaging spell over his frustrated and controlling mother.
When he is enrolled in holiday courses in the Scottish borders, lessons in love, rejection and humility are added to daily practice.
Drawing in part on his own boyhood, Patrick Gale's new novel explores a collision between childish hero worship and extremely messy adult love lives.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-08-2020
Superb
This was an extraordinarily brilliant listen. The narrator is the author which is an amazing duo. He is superb to listen to and the writing is like listening to a musical piece which rises and falls with lyrical intent.
I would recommend to anyone who loves depth and creative non fiction and is a lover of life and music.
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- Loretta.
- 02-03-2022
Take Nothing With You by Patrick Gale
I enjoyed this book about young people and puberty and there sexual prefrance
Thank you very much Patrick Gale much appreciated.
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- Wandaland
- 01-03-2022
I was captured from word go
I am rating this book as one of my all time favourites. I do love music so maybe that drew me in but the storyline was wonderful and real. The narrator was brilliant and I enjoyed his every word . I did not want the book to end and now feel heavy of heart.
I will cherish this story.
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- Brett
- 14-01-2023
Enchanting
Such a wonderful story it’s a shame when it ends. The narration is excellent too.
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- Ed
- 12-01-2023
String theory.
A wonderful story and beautifully narrated by the author. Loved it. Would have liked to have had confirmation that Eustice’s mum actually had a lesbian affair that seemed obvious but maybe only in my mind.
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- Vivienne Hughes
- 30-04-2022
Boring!!!!!
Closed this south 3.5 hrs to go. Very slow storyline with no real captive essence.
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