The Land in Winter

'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, Summer reads

''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''
SAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital

''Delicate and devastating''
I PAPER

''Incredibly satisfying''
FINANCIAL TIMES

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


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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