![]() He now lives in the far west, on a farm near Land's End with his husband, Aidan Hicks. The following year he moved to Camelford near the north coast of Cornwall and began a love affair with the county that has fed his work ever since. His first two novels, The Aerodynamics of Pork and Ease were published by Abacus on the same day in June 1986. ![]() While working on his first novels he eked out his slender income with odd jobs as a typist, a singing waiter, a designer's secretary, a ghost-writer for an encyclopedia of the musical and, increasingly, as a book reviewer. For three years he lived at a succession of addresses, from a Notting Hill bedsit to a crumbling French chateau. He finished his formal education with an English degree from New College, Oxford in 1983. At thirteen he went on to Winchester College. At eight Patrick began boarding as a Winchester College Quirister at the cathedral choir school, Pilgrim's. ![]() The family moved to London, where his father ran Wandsworth Prison, then to Winchester. He was the youngest of four one sister, two brothers, spread over ten years. Patrick was born on 31 January 1962 on the Isle of Wight, where his father was prison governor at Camp Hill, as his grandfather had been at nearby Parkhurst. ![]()
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