Kansas in August

By Patrick Gale

A toe-tapping story of life and its wonderful and unexpected complexities.

Hilary is a young, attractive teacher with aspirations to be a tap-dancer. Henry, his elder sister, is a crisp, professional psychologist. The unpredictable and unreliable Rufus, a failed pianist, is their lover – whom neither Hilary nor Henry realise they are sharing. Despite the constant danger of discovery, this unwitting triangle persists, in delicate balance – until, that is, someone new and totally unexpected enters the frame. Having rescued an abandoned baby boy, found soaked and tearful in a subway, Hilary decides, to his own great surprise, to become a surrogate parent.

Format: ebook
Release Date: 26 Mar 2015
Pages: None
ISBN: 978-0-00-740493-3
Patrick Gale was born in 1962 on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford and now writes full time.

”'Patrick Gale, on the strength of this modern, excellent and sympathetic novel, seems to be bound for greatness.” - Stephen Fry

”'Patrick Gale is an elegant, witty writer, with an engagingly bizarre imagination.” - Sunday Telegraph

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