Book description
** Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 **
Picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club
To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.
A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair…
Why read it?
1 author picked A Place Called Winter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is a true story told about a relative of the author and the prejudices faced and hardships endured by him. He was sent away to Canada at a time in the U.K.when homosexuality was illegal.
A real page-turner that left me pondering the amount of prejudice that still remains in our society today.
I believe we should all live and let live. Disliking the racism and homophobia we still see today, I do all in my power to educate folks otherwise as I have always felt there to be no reason for its existence.
This story made me…
From Joy's list on The best books about WW2 and women of the Special Operations Executive [S.O.E.].
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