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Gale, Patrick, 1962-

Take nothing with you / Patrick Gale. - London : Tinder Press, 2018. - 345 p. 22 cm.

1970s Weston-Super-Mare, and 10-year-old oddball Eustace, an only child, has life transformed by his mother's quixotic decision to sign him up for cello lessons. Music making brings release for a boy who is discovering he is an emotional volcano. He laps up lessons from his young teacher, not noticing how her brand of glamour is casting a damaging spell over his frustrated and controlling mother. When he is enrolled in holiday courses in the Scottish borders, lessons in love, rejection and humility are added to daily practice. Drawing in part on his own boyhood, Patrick Gale's new novel explores a collision between childish hero worship and extremely messy adult love lives.

ISBN: 9781472205346 1472205340

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Only child--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Music teachers--Fiction.
Reminiscing--Fiction.
Cello--Instruction and study--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Domestic fiction