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100			_aGale, Patrick, _d1962- _eauthor. _941446
245	1	0	_aMother's boy / _cPatrick Gale.
260			_aLondon : _bTinder Press, _c2022.
300			_a416 pages _billustration (black and white) ; _c20 cm
500			_aOriginally published: 2022.
520			_aLaura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius. As an intensely private young man, Charles signs up for the navy with the new rank of coder. His escape from the tight, gossipy confines of Launceston to the colour and violence of war sees him blossom as he experiences not only the possibility of death, but the constant danger of a love that is as clandestine as his work.
600	1	0	_aCausley, Charles, _d1917-2003 _vFiction.
600	1	7	_aCausley, Charles, _d1917-2003. _2fast
650		0	_93298 _aWidows _vFiction.
650		0	_92318 _aPoets _vFiction.
650		0	_95582 _aSocial classes _vFiction.
650		0	_93477 _aMothers and sons _vFiction.
650		0	_915900 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 _vFiction.
650		0	_9580 _aWorld War, 1939-1945 _vFiction.
651		0	_aLaunceston (England) _xHistory _y20th century _vFiction. _952666
655		0	_aBiographical fiction. _910435
655		0	_aBiographical fiction. _2fast _910435
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