Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/06/2015
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
The Orwell Hotel - Elizabeth Suite
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Novelist and screenwriter Patrick Gale describes his latest novel, A Place Called Winter, as a little like Brokeback Mountain meets E M Forster’s Maurice. It is at once a bildungsroman, a love story, a western and a thriller, taking his privileged hero, Harry Cane from the sunlit gardens of Edwardian suburbia, to the newly-colonised prairies of Western Canada. Patrick will talk about the interrelated challenges of writing historical fiction, of basing a novel squarely upon his family history and of writing a novel about sexuality set in a period in which none of the characters has the psycho-sexual vocabulary to describe their desires.