The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller
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From the publisher
Winter 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.
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025. Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025. Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025
A book of the year for the Independent, Guardian and i Newspaper.
'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
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?
For 200 impeccable pages Miller gives us four intensely imagined inner lives...