{"product_id":"9781529354270-the-land-in-winter","title":"The Land in Winter","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe 2025 Booker Prize-shortlisted 'word-of-mouth favourite' - Financial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinter 1962. As Britain becomes engulfed in one the coldest and longest winters on record, the lives of two newly married couples are changed in surprising and irrevocable ways.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ⭐ Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025  ⭐  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e⭐ Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025 ⭐\u003cbr\u003e⭐ Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 ⭐ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA book of the year for the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ei Newspaper,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Has an uncanny beauty and depth. A novel that travels into the darkest places of history and the strangest corners of the human mind'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e, Summer reads\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect. A novel that hits your cells and can be felt there, without your brain really knowing what's happened to it. Superb'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOrbital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Profound and moving and exquisitely written . A classic in the making' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH DAY, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Fail \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMagpie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Delicate and devastating'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI PAPER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Incredibly satisfying'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A novel of dazzling humanity and captivating, crystalline prose'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMAIL ON SUNDAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLocal 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, 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 where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that's already faltering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhere do you hide when you can't leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e More praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Land in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Perfect'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Beautifully done'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Psychologically acute . For 200 impeccable pages Miller gives us four intensely imagined inner lives. gripping'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I loved \u003ci\u003eThe Land in Winter . \u003c\/i\u003eThere were moments I thought of Penelope Fitzgerald - that moment I have always loved in \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e when the birch trees seem to grow hands - those liminal moments that are kind of beyond words, or explanation, but Miller finds them anyway. 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