He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and now lives in north Cornwall. He is the author of seven previous novels, including The Facts of Life, Little Bits of Baby, Kansas in August and a collection of stories, Dangerous Pleasures. Like many such a hero, he grows up happier with plants than people. Whilst he is straightforward, honest, and a doting dad, he can be a difficult, taciturn husband - but he's the last person one would think capable of being a killer . He wakes in the woods one morning, however, to find himself branded a wife-beater and under suspicion of murder.
Gale is an elegant and witty writer with an engagingly bizarre imagination.
Sunday Telegraph 'High drama and brilliantly realised milieux.