The Facts of Life is the story of Edward Pepper, a German born Jew whose family sends him to an English boarding-school thereby escaping the concentration camp in which is parents died. Dr. Sally Banks meets him while he is hospitalized for tuberculosis. Part I /5(43). · The Facts of Life by Patrick Gale In the Roundel, an odd, secluded, eight-sided house in the English countryside, Edward Pepper and Sally Banks build a life. Hoping they’ve left hardship behind—they met when Sally, a doctor, treated Edward for tuberculosis after he escaped from Nazi Germany to England—they raise a family together/ · Patrick Gale was born in on the Isle of Wight. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford and now writes full time. He is the author of thirteen previous novels, including `Rough Music', `Friendly Fire' and his most recent work `Notes from an Exhibition'. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title/5(54).
Patrick Gale has 36 books on Goodreads with ratings. Patrick Gale's most popular book is A Place Called Winter. A brilliant novel from the author of 'Notes from an Exhibition' - that follows three genrations of an unusual family as they confront the harsher facts of modern life. A young composer, Edward Pepper, is exiled from his native Germany by the war, struck down with TB, and left to languish in hospital. Patrick's seventeenth novel is his first fully historical one since A Place Called Winter. It is based around the known facts of the boyhood and youth of the great Cornish poet, Charles Causley and the life of the mother who raised him singlehandedly. Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in.
Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight. He spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, which his father governed, then grew up in Winchester, before attending Oxford University. He now lives on a farm near Land’s End. The Facts of Life. In the Roundel, an odd, secluded, eight-sided house in the English countryside, Edward Pepper and Sally Banks build a life. Hoping they’ve left hardship behind—they met when Sally, a doctor, treated Edward for tuberculosis after he escaped from Nazi Germany to England—they raise a family together. The Facts of Life is the story of Edward Pepper, a German born Jew whose family sends him to an English boarding-school thereby escaping the concentration camp in which is parents died. Dr. Sally Banks meets him while he is hospitalized for tuberculosis. Part I of this book is the story of their life together.
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