Love Lane: A searing portrayal of escape and the power of love, home and a family

'Miraculous, mischievous and quietly devastating, Love Lane is the irresistible story of five individuals, linked by the past and yet separated by the present.I have just fallen in love with a beautiful book' Rachel Joyce'With Love Lane, Gale gets right to the secret joys and hidden heartbreaks of ordinary, flawed family life.A tender, delicately devastating novel' Sarah Waters'I adored this book.Patrick Gale's writing glows with compassion, as does his subtle, unflinching insight into his characters.Love Lane is an engulfing, deeply humane novel about the triumphs and failures of human connection' Marina KempA reunion.A journey. A longing for a place called home... When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane is obliged to sell up and sail home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arrival triggers unwelcome self-examination for the family he abandoned, and for whom he has never been more than a distant myth. His daughter feels duty bound to take him in but is riven with