"Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect."--Samantha Harvey, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital Longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, The Land in Winter is a deft, page-turning examination of married life and a masterclass in storytelling from Booker-shortlisted author Andrew Miller. December 1962: In an English village deep in the West Country, two couples on neighboring farms begin their day. Local doctor Eric Parry, keeping secrets, commences his daily rounds to patients; his pregnant wife, Irene, lies in the warmth of their cottage, mulling over the detachment that has somehow sprung up between them in the past few years. Across from her and over the adjacent field, in a farmhouse that is never warm enough, sits Irene's mirror image. Funny but troubled Rita Simmons is also expecting; she spends her days trying on the idea of being a farmer's wife, while her head is still full of images of a raucous past life that her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up
