Tree Surgery for Beginners af Patrick Gale

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Tree Surgery for Beginners (udgave 2018)

af Patrick Gale (Auteur)

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A vivid and compelling portrait of a man at odds with himself; and an extended family of friends and lovers trying to take its proper shape. Lawrence Frost has neither father nor siblings, and fits so awkwardly into his worldly mother's life he might have dropped from the sky. Like many such heroes, he grows up happier with plants than people. While he is straightforward, honest, and a doting dad, he can be a difficult, taciturn husband - but he's the last person one would suspect of being a killer. Waking one morning to find himself branded a wife-beater and under suspicion of murder, his small world falls apart as he loses wife, daughter, liberty, livelihood and, almost, his mind.… (mere)

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Medlem:	simbaandjessie
Titel:	Tree Surgery for Beginners
Forfattere:	Patrick Gale (Auteur)
Info:	Tinder Press (2018), 320 pages
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When I picked this book up from the library, I didn't realise it was one I'd read before—I've read several Patrick Gale novels before, but nothing about the description seemed familiar although it was soon enough obvious it contained a number of familiar Patrick Gale tropes from the Barrowcester setting, plots involving brothers and sisters, plots involving somehow hidden identities. The violence and dramatic deaths in the book shocked me, but on the whole this was an easy read with enough to carry it through. Last time I tagged it with "oh so much drama", and that still rings true. (

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mari_reads | Sep 4, 2023 |

Enjoyable Patrick Gale read about tree surgeon Lawrence and family. His life falls apart when he pushes wife Bonnie in an argument and she is first injured and they leaves with their daughter Lucy. Going on a cruise with uncle Darius the plot begins to too many coincidences. The final section stretches credulity. It may be that, as he says in an epilogue, that it is part fairy story, but that did not work for me. (

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simbaandjessie | Feb 28, 2021 |

This was familiar Patrick Gale in terms of having a rather twisty plot and emphasising various different types of family relationships (couples, parents and children, siblings, adopted family members, families of choice), and written in an easy-to-read, unputdownable way. I did think the amount of drama and bad stuff hitting around Chapter 21 went over the top (in a similar way that there was a moment in Friendly Fire that pushed it what I thought as the wrong side of melodrama). And now I want to read more Patrick Gale. (

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mari_reads | Mar 3, 2012 |

Well-written, but ultimately too implausible.

wandering_star | Dec 20, 2009 |

A wonderful, comic, light hearted, life affirming novel. It starts in a dark place and feels as if the characters perform a dance to the author's music, to end in the warmth and light. As the novel ends "How do we manage to go so awry, break so utterly apart and still find the strength to continue?"

I would have rated this higher, but I felt that there was a forced section in the middle of the book where the author wanted to tie up loose ends, that did not have the same authorial voice, before he proceeds to his warm conclusion. (

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CarltonC | Mar 15, 2009 |

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Where doe the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
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The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
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The main cultural requirement is to form a sound branch system which will be capable of withstanding the gales, falls of wet snow and other natural calamities to which the tree will be subjected during its life.
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A noise woke Lawrence with a start. It was either the distant gunning of a car engine or a barking dog.

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A vivid and compelling portrait of a man at odds with himself; and an extended family of friends and lovers trying to take its proper shape. Lawrence Frost has neither father nor siblings, and fits so awkwardly into his worldly mother's life he might have dropped from the sky. Like many such heroes, he grows up happier with plants than people. While he is straightforward, honest, and a doting dad, he can be a difficult, taciturn husband - but he's the last person one would suspect of being a killer. Waking one morning to find himself branded a wife-beater and under suspicion of murder, his small world falls apart as he loses wife, daughter, liberty, livelihood and, almost, his mind.

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