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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER
2025 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
2025 Winston Graham Historical Prize for Fiction
Tender, elegant, soulful and Harvey, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital
December 1962: In a village deep in the English countryside, two neighboring couples begin the day. Local doctor Eric Parry commences his rounds in the village while his pregnant wife, Irene, wanders the rooms of their old house, mulling over the space that has grown between the two of them.
On the farm nearby lives Irenes mirror image: witty but troubled Rita Simmons is also expecting. She spends her days trying on the idea of being a farmers wife, but her head still swims with images of a raucous past that her husband, Bill, prefers to forget.
When Rita and Irene meet across the bare field between their houses, a clock starts. There is still affection in both their homes; neither marriage has yet to be abandoned. But when the ordinary cold of December gives wayushering in violent blizzards of the harshest winter in living memoryso do the secret resentments harbored in all four lives.
An exquisite, page-turning examination of relationships, The Land in Winter is a masterclass in storytellingproof yet again that Andrew Miller is one of the most dazzling chroniclers of the human heart.
Andrew Millers writing is a source of wonder and Mantel
Author: Andrew Miller
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 11/04/2025
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9798889661566
Language: English
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