The Land in Winter: The new novel from the award-winning author of Pure

Andrew Miller

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Somerset, Bristol, c 1960 to c 1970, Holidays & seasonal interest, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Weather

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- Trade Paperback Oct 29, 2024 | 9781529354287 | RRP $34.99 Pre-Order
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Sceptre
- Trade Paperback Oct 29, 2024 | 9781529354287 | RRP $34.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Jan 28, 2025 | 9781529354270 | RRP $49.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Oct 24, 2024 | 9781529354317 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Oct 24, 2024 | 9781529354294 | RRP $44.99 Pre-Order
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Sceptre
- Trade Paperback Oct 29, 2024 | 9781529354287 | RRP $34.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Jan 28, 2025 | 9781529354270 | RRP $49.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Oct 24, 2024 | 9781529354317 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Oct 24, 2024 | 9781529354294 | RRP $44.99 Pre-Order
Imprint

Sceptre
- Trade Paperback Oct 29, 2024 | 9781529354287 | RRP $34.99 Pre-Order
- Hardback Jan 28, 2025 | 9781529354270 | RRP $49.99 Pre-Order
- e-Book Oct 24, 2024 | 9781529354317 | RRP $15.99 Pre-Order
- Audiobook Oct 24, 2024 | 9781529354294 | RRP $44.99 Pre-Order

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.

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. He's 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 that's 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 can't leave home? And where, in a frozen world, could you run to?

Praise for The Land in Winter: The new novel from the award-winning author of Pure

PRAISE FOR ANDREW MILLER
'His writing is a source of wonder and delight'
HILARY MANTEL
'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind'
SUNDAY TIMES
'Unique, visionary, a master at unmasking humanity'
SARAH HALL
'A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative'
THE TIMES
'A wonderful storyteller'
SPECTATOR

Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free and The Slowworm's Song. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.