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''Disruptive and graceful beyond anything I''ve read''
SARAH HALL, author of Burntcoat

''Absolutely essential . . . gently and startlingly beautiful''
JENN ASHWORTH, author of Ghosted

''A wondrous novel''
TIM PEARS, author of The West Country Trilogy


December 1962, the West Country.

In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills.

In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. 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, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, 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 he bought, a place where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that''s a

The Land in Winter

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''Disruptive and graceful beyond anything I''ve read''SARAH HALL, author of Burntcoat''Absolutely essential . . . gently and startlingly beautiful''JENN ASHWORTH,... Read more

    Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
    Publication Date: 10/24/2024
    ISBN13: 9781529354270, 978-1529354270
    ISBN10: 1529354277

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    ''Disruptive and graceful beyond anything I''ve read''
    SARAH HALL, author of Burntcoat

    ''Absolutely essential . . . gently and startlingly beautiful''
    JENN ASHWORTH, author of Ghosted

    ''A wondrous novel''
    TIM PEARS, author of The West Country Trilogy


    December 1962, the West Country.

    In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills.

    In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. 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, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, 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 he bought, a place where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that''s a

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