
Take Nothing with You
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Narrated by:
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Patrick Gale
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By:
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Patrick Gale
About this listen
From the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER comes a new novel of boyhood, coming of age, and the confusions of desire and reality. For all readers of Ian McEwan's ATONEMENT or L P Hartley's THE GO-BETWEEN.
1970s Weston-Super-Mare and ten-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.
Critic reviews
Music to your ears
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Great start, then meandering middle and muddled end.
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Disappointing
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Take nothing with you
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Thoroughly enjoyed every moment!
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A riveting journey.
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Oh my, this tapped nostalgic emotions.
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I didn’t want it to end.
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I did not enjoy the author’s performance and thought it would have been better left to a professional actor.
Falls short of usual Gale standard
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Full of learning about music and full of emotion that will ache and keep you riveted and some sex for added pleasure.
Get it, you won’t regret.
An enjoyable and thoughtful story
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