Patrick Gale | Love Lane
Sat 21 Nov 2026 | 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Beloved, bestselling author of Costa-shortlisted novel A Place Called Winter, Patrick Gale returns to Cambridge with his brilliant new novel Love Lane. From the rural plains of Canada to 1950s Liverpool and Yorkshire, Love Lane is a searing portrayal of escape and entrapment, and a powerful exploration of what home and family can be. When writers Sarah Waters, Rachel Joyce and Clare Chambers, amongst many others, are all heaping praise on this book, you know you’re in for a treat.
In conversation with Jo Browning Wroe.
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
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. His original BBC television drama, Man In An Orange Shirt, was shown to great acclaim in 2017 as part of the BBC’s Queer Britannia series, leading viewers around the world to discover his novels.
Chair Biography
Jo Browning Wroe grew up in a crematorium in Birmingham. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and is now Creative Writing Supervisor at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Her debut novel, A Terrible Kindness, was shortlisted for the Bridport Peggy Chapman-Andrews award and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller, as well as one of Waterstones’ Best Books of 2022. She has two adult daughters and lives with her husband in Cambridge.
