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MIDWINTER - FIONA MELROSE TASCHENBUCH

'Finely judged writing like this comes from a place of instinct  and it marks Melrose out as
someone to watch . . . Midwinter is a great success' Melissa Harrison  GuardianFather and Son 
Landyn and Vale Midwinter  are Suffolk farmers  living together on land their family has worked
for generations. But they are haunted there by a past they have long refused to confront: the
death of Cecelia  beloved wife and mother  when Vale was just a child. Both men have carried
her loss  unspoken.Until now.With the onset of a mauling winter  something between them
snaps.While Vale makes increasingly desperate decisions  Landyn retreats  finding solace in the
land  his animals - and a vixen who haunts the farm and seems to bring with her both comfort
and protection.Tender and lyrical  alive to language and nature  Midwinter is a novel about
guilt  blame  lost opportunities and  ultimately  it is a story about love and the lengths we
will go to find our way home.'Melrose elegantly weaves narratives detailing the men's internal
tumult with lush descriptions of their natural surroundings . . . A moving story about the
cruelty of chance  modern masculinity and the transformative power of the bonds between men'
Financial Times'I have rarely read a narrative voice as distinctive as Landyn's  and the loving
depiction of regional English working-class masculinity is unusual and timely . . . This is
certainly not a light-hearted book  but it offers the true consolation of some very good
writing' Sarah Moss  TLS'A penetrating study of grief and guilt' Daily Mail

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