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The Land in Winter (Paperback)
Andrew Miller

DECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY.

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, 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.

But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, 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, can you run to?

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Awards

Winner
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Winston Graham Historical Prize

Shortlisted

Booker Prize

Media Reviews

One of the best writers at work today' TELEGRAPH

'Has an uncanny beauty and depth... A novel that travels into the darkest places of history and the strangest corners of the human mind' GUARDIAN

'Money, class, love: all of life is in there' SUNDAY TIMES

'Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect... Superb' SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital

'A classic in the making'ELIZABETH DAY, author of How to Fail and One of Us

Winter'Perfect' OBSERVER

'Delicate and devastating' I PAPER

'Incredibly satisfying'FINANCIAL TIMES

'A novel of dazzling humanity and captivating, crystalline prose' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'I loved The Land in Winter... There were moments I thought of Penelope Fitzgerald... A thing of rare beauty' RACHEL JOYCE, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

'An exquisite achievement, luminously written, full of wonder at the diversity and strangeness of human experience.' FRANCIS SPUFFORD, author of Golden Hill

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The Author

Author: Andrew Miller
Nationality: English

The Book

Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Published: 2025-09-23
First Published: 2024
ISBN: 9781529354300

The Place

Continent: Europe
Country: Britain
Region: England

  • Countryside

  • Family dynamics
  • Loneliness
  • Gender
  • Class

  • Multiple perspectives
  • Character driven
  • Serious tone