{"product_id":"the-land-in-winter","title":"The Land In Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e? Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025 ?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e? Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025 ?\u003cbr\u003e\n? Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 ?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the best writers at work today'\u003cbr\u003e\nTELEGRAPH\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Has an uncanny beauty and depth... A novel that travels into the darkest places of history and the strangest corners of the human mind'\u003cbr\u003e\nGUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Money, class, love: all of life is in there'\u003cbr\u003e\nSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect... Superb'\u003cbr\u003e\nSAMANTHA HARVEY, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A classic in the making'\u003cbr\u003e\nELIZABETH DAY, author of How to Fail and One of Us\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLocal 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere do you hide when you can't leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore praise for The Land in Winter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Perfect'\u003cbr\u003e\nOBSERVER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Delicate and devastating'\u003cbr\u003e\nI PAPER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Incredibly satisfying'\u003cbr\u003e\nFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A novel of dazzling humanity and captivating, crystalline prose'\u003cbr\u003e\nMAIL ON SUNDAY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I loved The Land in Winter . . . There were moments I thought of Penelope Fitzgerald... A thing of rare beauty'\u003cbr\u003e\nRACHEL JOYCE, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An exquisite achievement, luminously written, full of wonder at the diversity and strangeness of human experience.'\u003cbr\u003e\nFRANCIS SPUFFORD, author of Golden Hill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for Andrew Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Andrew Miller's writing is a source of wonder and delight'\u003cbr\u003e\nHILARY MANTEL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind'\u003cbr\u003e\nSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts'\u003cbr\u003e\nINDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative'\u003cbr\u003e\nTHE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A wonderful storyteller'\u003cbr\u003e\nSPECTATOR\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45111219323059,"sku":"9781529354300","price":560.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/51usDidh4HL.jpg?v=1762907535","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-land-in-winter","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}