{"product_id":"the-land-in-winter-9781529354270","title":"The Land in Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction  A best book of the year for the Independent  Guardian i Newspaper and Good Housekeeping Tender  elegant  soulful and perfect. A novel that hits your cells and can be felt there  without your brain really knowing whats happened to it. Superb SAMANTHA HARVEY  Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital  Delicate and devastating INDEPENDENT  The 20 best books of the year  Miller may have written his best book yet . . . brilliance that is not to be missed GUARDIAN  The best fiction of 2024  Incredibly satisfying FINANCIAL TIMES  A novel of dazzling humanity and captivating  crystalline prose MAIL ON SUNDAY  Perfect RACHEL COOKE  OBSERVER  I loved The Land in Winter . . . There were moments I thought of Penelope Fitzgerald - that moment I have always loved in The Beginning of Spring when the birch trees seem to grow hands - those liminal moments that are kind of beyond words  or explanation  but Miller finds them anyway. Its a thing of rare beauty RACHEL JOYCE  author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry  Disruptive and graceful beyond anything Ive read SARAH HALL  author of Burntcoat  December 1962  the West Country.  In the darkness of an old asylum  a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills.  In the nearby village  two couples begin their day. 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  in a farmhouse impossible to heat  funny  troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep  her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. Hes been up for hours  tending to the needs of the small dairy farm he bought  a place where he hoped to create a new version of himself  a project thats already faltering.  There is affection - if not always love - in both homes: these are marriages that still hold some promise. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards - a true winter  the harshest in living memory - the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.  Where do you hide when you cant leave home? And where  in a frozen world  can you run to?  A masterful  page-turning examination of the minutiae of life  The Land in Winter is a masterclass in storytelling - proof yet again that Andrew Miller is one of Britains most dazzling chroniclers of the human heart.  PRAISE FOR ANDREW MILLER Andrew Millers writing is a source of wonder and delight HILARY MANTEL  One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind SUNDAY TIMES  A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY  A highly intelligent writer  both exciting and contemplative THE TIMES  A wonderful storyteller SPECTATOR\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67901748772917,"sku":"ByrdShop_1529354277","price":58.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781529354270.jpg?v=1793815834","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-land-in-winter-9781529354270","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}