The Land in Winter (Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025)

★入圍2025 Booker Prize
★榮獲 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction、Winston Graham Historical Prize

1962年12月，英國西南的寒冬籠罩。鄉村醫師 Eric Parry 在雪夜巡診，思索著心底的秘密；農場主與妻子 Rita 則掙扎於過去與未竟的夢想。當暴風雪突襲，他們的生活如冰層般龜裂。《The Land in Winter》以細膩筆法描繪人性在孤寂與極限下的掙扎與溫度。Andrew Miller 將愛、階級與命運編織成一幅冬日心靈圖景，語調沉靜卻極具力量。

・入圍與獲獎並列多項重要文學獎
・文字冷峻細緻，具 Hilary Mantel 式深度
・探討家庭、身份與自然之間的張力

⭐ Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025
⭐ Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025
⭐ Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025

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?