Dark, moving and eccentric, GENTLEMAN’S RELISH is Patrick Gale’s second collection of subversive and exhilarating short stories’The short story form suits Gale’s ability to zoom in on the smallest nuances of a relationship’Kate Saunders, The Times A lonely prison governor’s wife develops a sudden passion for an unexpected hobby; a cookery connoisseur suspects his homophobic father and brothers are attempting to manipulate him and looks for revenge; a grandmother offers hair-raising family tales to her abandoned grandchildren; a sex demon in an old casket gruesomely transforms a honeymooning couple. In his second collection of short stories, Patrick Gale creates worlds where the making and breaking of relationships -between mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, lovers and strangers -offer unforgettably dark and moving twists to these utterly unpredictable lives.
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