Patrick Evelyn Hugh Sadler Gale (born 31 January 1962) is a British novelist.
[4] Before he turned ten, one of his siblings suffered a nervous breakdown and his mother almost died in a car accident that left her brain-damaged.
[10] He is artistic director of the North Cornwall Book Festival, which he helped found.
[11] He is a patron of the Charles Causley Trust,[12] the Penzance LitFest,[13] and Literature Works.
[14] Gale lives on a farm near Land's End, with his husband, the sculptor-farmer Aidan Hicks.