From bestselling author Patrick Gale comes a searing portrayal of escape and the power of love, home and family. Love Lane is a brilliant new standalone novel featuring characters from Patrick’s Costa-shortlisted novel A Place Called Winter. Set in 1950s Northern England it tells the story of three generations. 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 and his daughter feels duty bound to take him in but is riven with doubt and ambushed by a long-buried anger towards him. However, Harry's effect on the next generation is less predictable. From the rural plains of Canada to 1950s Liverpool and Yorkshire, Love Lane is portrayal of escape and entrapment, and a powerful exploration of what home and family can really be.

Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight. He spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, which his father governed, then grew up in Winchester before going to Oxford University. He now lives on a farm near Land's End. One of this country's best-loved novelists, his most recent works are A Perfectly Good Man, the Richard and Judy bestseller Notes From An Exhibition, the Costa shortlisted A Place Called Winter and Mother's Boy.