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The Land in Winter

Andrew Miller

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#711 of 8,085 books · #134 in Historical Fiction

Won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2025). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Eric and Irene and Bill and Rita. Two young couples living next to each other, the first in a beautiful cottage - suitable for a newly appointed local doctor - the second in a rundown, perennially under-heated farm. Despite their apparent differences, the two women (both pregnant) strike an easy friendship - a connection that comes as a respite from the surprising tediousness of married life, with its unfulfilled expectations, growing resentments and the ghosts of a recent past. But as one of the coldest winters on record grips England in a never-ending frost and as the country is enveloped in a thick, soft, unmoving layer of snow, the two couples find themselves cut off from the rest of the world. And without the small distractions of everyday existence, suddenly old tensions and shocking new discoveries threaten to change the course of their lives forever.

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Publisher
Sceptre
ISBN-13
9798889661566
Topics
Marriage and relationshipsIsolation and survivalFriendship between women

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