Little Bits of Baby
A quirky, comedic novel of breakdown, escape and the possibilities of finding love
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Description de l’éditeur
Set in the late 1980s, Patrick Gale's early novel is a charming, funny story of love and life teetering towards the edge
'Richly comic, affectionate and perceptive' Mail on Sunday
Eight years ago, Robin fled from his family, friends, and entire life, to suffer a complete breakdown in an island monastery. Now he's returning to London and reconnecting with those he left behind: his mother and father, with their own small secrets, and Jake and Candida.
But while the people he abandoned have missed him, Robin finds that everything has changed. He alone can decide what he will do in this new world of resentment, possibility and triumphant love.
What readers say about LITTLE BITS OF BABY:
'A book which has all its diverse elements entwined until the last few chapters when strong bonds both erupt and then combine to show the true nature of love' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I loved this book. Patrick Gale can do no wrong for me. He is rapidly becoming my new favourite writer' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When British TV show hostess Candida Thackeray asks Robin Maitland, her childhood pal and her husband Jake's former best friend, to godparent her baby, she rattles a chain of improbable but entertaining events. Robin, having suffered a breakdown, has subsequently spent nearly eight years with an oddball religious community off the English coast; he emerges for the christening to find his parents, Peter and Andrea, running a kindergarten. Subsequently, Peter visits Marcus, a man hospitalized with an unnamed terminal disease, and Andrea visits Faber, a painter and the father, by adoption, of Iras, a girl born without eyes. Faber turns out to have once been an intimate of the dying Marcus, Robin to be in love with Faber, and Jake to have caused Robin's psychosis. Although the interconnections are sometimes pat and all females, even the saintly Iras, are shown as hidden saboteurs, this newest black comedy by the author of The Aerodynamics of Pork tries for seriousness but remains essentially lightweight and zany.
