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01714aam a2200313 i 4500 001 D0F1B0D6753311EDBCB8DF3E50ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221206010103 008 210608t20222022enka 000 f eng d 010 $a 2021385234 020 $a 9781472257437 020 $a 147225743X 020 $a 9781472257413 020 $a 1472257413 040 $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a PR6057.A382 $b M68 2022 082 04 $a 823/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Gale, Patrick, $d 1962- $e author. 245 10 $a Mother's boy / $c Patrick Gale. 264 1 $a London : $b Tinder Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 406 pages : $b illustration ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius. An intensely private young man, Charles signs up for the navy with the new rank of coder. His escape from the tight, gossipy confines of Launceston to the colour and violence of war sees him blossom as he experiences not only the possibility of death, but the constant danger of a love that is as clandestine as his work."--Publisher. 600 10 $a Causley, Charles, $d 1917-2003 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Launceston (England) $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Biographical fiction. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20221206012450.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D0F1B0D6753311EDBCB8DF3E50ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search