Devastatingly moving and full of psychological insight, A PERFECTLY GOOD MAN is a warm, humane Cornish novel from the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER 'A convincing, moving account of man's struggle with faith, marriage and morality' Sunday Times/5(). Returning us to the rugged Cornish landscape of Notes from an Exhibition, Patrick Gale lays bare the lives and the thoughts of a whole community and asks us: what does it mean to be good? A Perfectly Good Man tells two stories in tandem. Ostensibly it tells of the effect had on the lives of a wife, a mistress and three children by the love of Barnaby Johnson, a parish priest in a remote mining community in . The novel that author Patrick Gale describes as “an echo chamber” to his international bestseller Notes from an Exhibition, A Perfectly Good Man reveals another family in crisis and asks what it truly means to be good. This Richard Judy Book Club pick is a story of warmth, wisdom, and compassion on crises of faith, the power of prayer, morality, and what it means to be a parent/5().
Praise for A Perfectly Good Man At his best, Gale is an effortlessly elastic storyteller, a writer with heart, soul, and a dark and naughty wit, one whose company you relish and trust a novel which managed to upset and uplift me in equal measure, and which kept me company - and kept me guessing - right through to its slightly bitter and. A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale - review Patrick Gale's novel of a parish priest under strain is upsetting and uplifting, and proves he is a better writer than he knows 'Narrative. A Perfectly Good Man. Patrick Gale. Headline Publishing Group, - pages. 9 Reviews. What people are saying - Write a review. User ratings. 5 stars: 4: 4 stars: 4: 3 stars: 1: 2 stars: 0: 1 star: 0: LibraryThing Review User Review - oldblack - LibraryThing. I thought this was an excellent book. I think the approach of focusing.
A Perfectly Good Man by Patrick Gale – review Patrick Gale's novel of a parish priest under strain is upsetting and uplifting, and proves he is a better writer than he knows 'Narrative. Patrick Gale talks to Richard and Judy about his Novel 'A Perfectly Good Man'. Returning us to the rugged Cornish landscape of Notes from an Exhibition, Patrick Gale lays bare the lives and the thoughts of a whole community and asks us: what does it mean to be good? A Perfectly Good Man tells two stories in tandem. Ostensibly it tells of the effect had on the lives of a wife, a mistress and three children by the love of Barnaby Johnson, a parish priest in a remote mining community in the windswept west of Cornwall, and how fault lines are opened up in all their.
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