'“Very funny . . . Imaginative . . . Gale keeps it all going.” —The Washington Post   “If E. F. Benson, Iris Murdoch and Fay Weldon were to produce a story in some mad collusion, the result might be something like this.” —Publishers Weekly  Praise for Patrick Gale “Patrick Gale’s wonderful novels are rife with coincidence, charm and unrelenting humanity. I wait for them the way some people wait for springtime.” —Armistead Maupin, author of the Tales of the City novels  '