Love Lane Michael Holroyd Hailed by many as an

Hailed by many as an indisputable masterpiece

Claude Monet

In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity

insightful and nothing close to a chore to read

Love Lane Michael Holroyd Hailed by many as an'With Love Lane, Gale gets right to the secret joys and hidden heartbreaks of ordinary, flawed family life. A tender, delicately devastating novel' Sarah Waters 'Love Lane moved me greatly. The novel has a great sweep, in its story, and in the richness and vividness of each of its character. This is a book about secrets and lies, yet Gale has such an exact and elegant power as a storyteller that the experience of reading the novel is rousing. I think