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Notes from an Exhibition

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A bestselling 'Cornish' novel, NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION is a moving, intuitive novel of artistic compulsion, marriage, and the secrets left behind. It was a Richard & Judy bestseller.

'Poised and pitch-perfect throughout' Mail on Sunday

Celebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with the creative highs and devastating lows that have coloured her life. Her family gathers, each of them searching for answers. They reflect on lives shaped by the enigmatic Rachel - as artist, wife and mother - and on the ambiguous legacies she leaves them, of talent, torment and transcendent love.

Critics Review

This book is complete perfection
Stephen Fry
Poised and pitch-perfect throughout
Mail on Sunday
Dense, thought-provoking, sensitive, satisfying, humorous, humane - a real treat
Daily Telegraph
As rich and inventive as we would expect from this brilliant author
Independent
An uplifting, immensely empathetic novel, and Gale's prose, as ever is as clear and bright as the Cornish light
Guardian
Author Patrick Gale
Narrator Patrick Gale
Duration 11 hours and 53 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781472255662
Format Audiobook
Publisher Headline
Genre Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction
Collections Visit Cornwall
Availability AU, GB, IE

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