Past Programs
Gay, Lesbian and Transgender - 2007
Patrick Gale: Brisbane Writers' Festival Read Transcript
20/09/2007
British author Patrick Gale's latest novel is Notes from an Exhibition. Set in Gale's home county of Cornwall, it tells of a family headed by a woman who is both successful artist and manic depressive mother; roles that are hard to separate.
Each chapter of the book begins with a note from the exhibition of the work and life of an artist called Rachel Kelly. She's a painter, a mother of four -- in fact a very bad mother of four; she has bi-polar illness, and is a gifted and tormented artist with an extremely loving and forgiving husband. Patrick Gale shows her in all her facets.
From the Brisbane Writers' Festival Patrick Gale began with a reading from Notes from an Exhibition.
