The Land in Winter

⭐ SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025⭐
Graceful, atmospheric, enormously satisfying
SARAH JESSICA PARKER, BOOKER JUDGE 2025

I love The Land in Winter so much... Its really, really, really, really good
GILLIAN ANDERSON

A classic in the making
ELIZABETH DAY

One of the best writers at work today
TELEGRAPH

Has an uncanny beauty and depth
GUARDIAN

Money, class, love: all of life is in there
SUNDAY TIMES

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. Hes 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 thats 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 CANT LEAVE HOME? AND WHERE, IN A FROZEN WORLD, CAN YOU RUN TO?

More praise for The Land in Winter
⭐ Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025 ⭐
⭐ Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 ⭐

Perfect
OBSERVER

Delicate and devastating
I PAPER

Incredibly satisfying
FINANCIAL TIMES

A novel of dazzling humanity and captivating, crystalline prose
MAIL ON SUNDAY

I loved The Land in Winter . . . There were moments I thought of Penelope Fitzgerald... A thing of rare beauty
RACHEL JOYCE, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

An exquisite achievement, luminously written, full of wonder at the diversity and strangeness of human experience.
FRANCIS SPUFFORD, author of Golden Hill

Praise for Andrew Miller
Andrew Millers writing is a source of wonder and delight
HILARY MANTEL

One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind
SUNDAY TIMES

A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative
THE TIMES

A wonderful storyteller
SPECTATOR