{"product_id":"the-land-in-winter-andrew-miller","title":"The Land in Winter (Andrew Miller)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e   SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025  \u003cbr\u003e THE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eFICTION PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR   \u003cbr\u003e'Graceful, atmospheric, enormously satisfying'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSARAH JESSICA PARKER, BOOKER JUDGE 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I love \u003ci\u003eThe Land in Winter \u003c\/i\u003eso much... It's really, really, really, really good'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGILLIAN ANDERSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A classic in the making'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH DAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'Both funny and terrifying: Miller at his best'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eROSE TREMAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the best writers at work today'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Has an uncanny beauty and depth'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Money, class, love: all of life is in there'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLocal 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWHERE DO YOU HIDE WHEN YOU CAN'T LEAVE HOME? AND WHERE, IN A FROZEN WORLD, CAN YOU RUN TO?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Land in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e  Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025  \u003cbr\u003e  Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Perfect'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Delicate and devastating'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI PAPER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Incredibly satisfying'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A novel of dazzling humanity and captivating, crystalline prose'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMAIL ON SUNDAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I loved \u003ci\u003eThe Land in Winter . . . \u003c\/i\u003eThere were moments I thought of Penelope Fitzgerald... A thing of rare beauty'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRACHEL JOYCE, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An exquisite achievement, luminously written, full of wonder at the diversity and strangeness of human experience.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRANCIS SPUFFORD, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGolden Hill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Andrew Miller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Andrew Miller's writing is a source of wonder and delight'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHILARY MANTEL\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A wonderful storyteller'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAndrew Miller's first novel, \u003ci\u003eIngenious Pain\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eCasanova\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxygen\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, \u003ci\u003eThe Optimists\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Morning Like a Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePure\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2011, \u003ci\u003eThe Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNow We Shall Be Entirely Free\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Slowworm's Song \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Land in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. 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