Tree Surgery for Beginners by Patrick Gale

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Tree Surgery for Beginners by Patrick Gale

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From the author of The Facts of Life comes a cunning mix of tragedy and comedy, featuring one man’s journey to self-discovery.

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Tree Surgery for Beginners by Patrick Gale

From the author of The Facts of Life comes a cunning mix of tragedy and comedy, featuring one man’s journey to self-discovery. Lawrence Frost has a special relationship with all things green – his patience with plants and trees knows no bounds. His ability to get on with his wife, Bonnie, is another matter however. Having always taken her and his daughter Lucy for granted, under duress and out of jealousy he lashes out and suddenly loses both of them. The subsequent shock of his violent and conflicting emotions sends him off on a journey of penance that will take him across the Atlantic to America. Along the way he falls in love with an enigmatic chanteuse whose dramatic demise throws his life into further chaos. Finally, he finds sanctuary, alone, working in a Californian retreat and health spa, where he tends to the estate’s flora. Here, he is eventually able to lay the ghosts from his past to rest before finding the peace and happiness which are necessary to mend his fractured family tree.

`Gale is an elegant and witty writer, with an engagingly bizarre imagination’
Sunday Telegraph

`Gale’s blend of artifice and realism is not quite like anybody else’s.’
Observer

`Gale’s wonderful novels are rife with coincidence, charm and unrelenting humanity. I wait for them the way some people wait for springtime.’
Armistead Maupin

Patrick Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford and now writes full time.

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ISBN 13 9780002256124
ISBN 10 0002256126
Title Tree Surgery for Beginners
Author Patrick Gale
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Binding type Hardback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1998-01-19
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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