** Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 **
Picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club
To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.
A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair do little to shake the foundations of his muted existence - until the shock of discovery and the threat of arrest cost him everything.
Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. Remote and unforgiving, his allotted homestead in a place called Winter is a world away from the golden suburbs of turn-of-the-century Edwardian England. And yet it is here, isolated in a seemingly harsh landscape, under the threat of war, madness and an evil man of undeniable magnetism that the fight for survival will reveal in Harry an inner strength and capacity for love beyond anything he has ever known before.
In this exquisite journey of self-discovery, loosely based on a real life family mystery, Patrick Gale has created an epic, intimate human drama, both brutal and breathtaking. It is a novel of secrets, sexuality and, ultimately, of great love.
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781472205292
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 600 g
Dimensions: 236 x 163 x 32 mm
Firstly, I received this book for free in exchange for giving a review. Upon receiving it, I knew that it would be something I would never usually read. However, having said that, this book had me captivated from the... More
A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale will be published by Tinder Press on 26 March 2015 in hardback, the paperback release will follow in September.
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Set at the turn of the 20th Century, A Place Called Winter tells the moving story of Harry Cane who is forced to abandon his wealthy, easy life in England for the harsh and unforgiving world of the Canadian prairies... More
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