Book description
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, i Newspaper, Good Housekeeping
'Has an uncanny beauty and depth... A novel that travels into the darkest…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Land in Winter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Early in my medical career, I spent a year as a country GP, also worked in an old county mental asylum, and this book set in the rural west of England brought back many memories of those times.
It involves the relationship between four characters, a doctor and a farmer, and their respective wives. Both women are expecting their first child. Their isolation and hardship during the freezing winter of 1962 increase the tensions among them.
The landscape is vividly described in this detailed and evocative literary novel.
From Jennifer's list on novels about the psychology of marriage.
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