
The Land in Winter
The new novel from the award-winning author of Pure
By: Andrew Miller
Hardcover | 14 February 2025 | Edition Number 1
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''Disruptive and graceful beyond anything I''ve read''
SARAH HALL, author of Burntcoat
''Absolutely essential . . . gently and startlingly beautiful''
JENN ASHWORTH, author of Ghosted
''A wondrous novel''
TIM PEARS, author of The West Country Trilogy
December 1962, the West Country.
In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills.
In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage.
Across the field, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He''s been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm he bought, a place where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that''s already faltering.
There is affection - if not always love - in both homes: these are marriages that still hold some promise. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards - a true winter, the harshest in living memory - the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.
Where do you hide when you can''t leave home? And where, in a frozen world, could you run to?
A masterful, page-turning examination of the minutiae of life, The Land in Winter is a masterclass in storytelling - proof yet again that Andrew Miller is one of Britain''s most dazzling chroniclers of the human heart.
PRAISE FOR ANDREW MILLER
''Andrew Miller''s writing is a source of wonder and delight''
HILARY MANTEL
''One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind''
SUNDAY TIMES
''A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts''
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
''A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative''
THE TIMES
''A wonderful storyteller''
SPECTATOR
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ISBN: 9781529354270
ISBN-10: 1529354277
Published: 14th February 2025
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 384
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 24.2 x 16.2 x 3.5
Weight (kg): 0.6
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