{"product_id":"the-land-in-winter-9781529354270b","title":"The Land in Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eLonglisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA best book of the year for the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eGuardian,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ei Newspaper \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect. A novel that hits your cells and can be felt there, without your brain really knowing what's happened to it. Superb'\u003cbr\u003eSAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eOrbital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Delicate and devastating'\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e, The 20 best books of the year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDecember 1962, the West Country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere do you hide when you can't leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterful, page-turning examination of the minutiae of life, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Land in Winter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a masterclass in storytelling - proof yet again that Andrew Miller is one of Britain's most dazzling chroniclers of the human heart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sceptre","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42822419218512,"sku":"9781529354270B","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781529354270-l.jpg?v=1785887866","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/the-land-in-winter-9781529354270b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}