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    Duty & desire

    Mar 13, 2022 2 minutes
    by GILL SOUTH

    MOTHER’S BOY, by Patrick Gale (Hachette, 37.99)

    generation of women born around the turn of the 20th century went through the horror of losing not only a husband and brothers to World War I but also a son or sons to World War II. In Patrick, a loose retelling of the life of Cornishman Charles Causley, a popular and respected World War II poet, we see his mother, Laura, go through this very real fear.

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