⭐ Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ⭐ ⭐ 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 places of history and the strangest corners of the human
mind' GUARDIAN Summer reads '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'
SAMANTHA HARVEY Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital 'Delicate and devastating' I PAPER
'Incredibly satisfying' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A novel of dazzling humanity and captivating
crystalline prose' MAIL ON SUNDAY 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. He's 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
that's 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 can't leave home? And where in a frozen world can you run to? More praise for The
Land in Winter 'Perfect' OBSERVER 'Beautifully done' THE TIMES 'Psychologically acute .
. . For 200 impeccable pages Miller gives us four intensely imagined inner lives... gripping'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'I loved The Land in Winter . . . There were moments I thought of
Penelope Fitzgerald - that moment I have always loved in The Beginning of Spring when the birch
trees seem to grow hands - those liminal moments that are kind of beyond words or explanation
but Miller finds them anyway. It's 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 'Disruptive and graceful beyond anything I've read' SARAH HALL author of Helm
'Sentence after sentence The Land in Winter is beautifully intricate deeply moving and
utterly absorbing' CLAIRE FULLER author of Unsettled Ground Praise for Andrew Miller
'Andrew Miller's 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
