The Land in Winter

Delicate and devastating . . . a brilliant novel, but wrap your emotions up tight because Miller steers it expertly towards a desolate, distressing ending -- Martin Chilton * Independent *
A novel of dazzling humanity and captivating, crystalline prose -- Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday *
Miller is on superb form here as he portrays the everyday lives of country doctor Eric and farmer Bill and their respective wives, Irene and Rita, both of whom are expecting their first child. This is a story of conformity and conflict - against the elements, societal changes and the characters' sense of themselves. That inner turmoil is brilliantly crafted, and the depiction of the local asylum in particular is chilling in every sense * Observer *
Psychologically acute . . . For 200 impeccable pages Miller gives us four intensely imagined inner lives . . . gripping * Times Literary Supplement *
Beautifully done -- James Walton * The Times *
Moving . . . offers a full display of Miller's gifts . . . In the white violence of the winter terrain, the narrator's voice wreaths around everything. That voice is the glory of The Land in Winter * Literary Review *
Intimate . . . The writing is stunning and the details of the 1960s setting are particularly evocative. Another psychologically rich novel from one of my favourite writers -- Joanne Finney * Good Housekeeping *
Miller works magic, bringing to life not just human relations, but the Sixties too, before they began to swing * Saga Magazine *
With each new novel, Andrew Miller revitalises the form and takes the reader to extraordinary new places. His work is truly exploratory, never still in its ambition or human dynamics. There's always immense sensuality, disquiet, drama and wisdom in his books, but The Land in Winter is outstandingly beautiful and immersive in its storytelling. It's disruptive and graceful beyond anything I've read or could hope to write. He is the novelists' lodestar -- Sarah Hall, author of BURNTCOAT
Sentence after sentence, The Land in Winter is beautifully intricate, deeply moving, and utterly absorbing -- Claire Fuller, author of UNSETTLED GROUND
I loved it from the first line. The Land in Winter is going to be such an important book - one that we need now. The relentless dignity and vulnerability of ordinary work in the aftermath of horror - the eggs still need scrambling and the cows milking no matter what - and the rough and awkward work of love as part of the same picture feels absolutely essential. It was gently and startlingly beautiful -- Jenn Ashworth, author of GHOSTED
The Land in Winter is a wondrous novel about the interior lives of the occupants of two marriages, set in the intensely realised physical world they inhabit. Andrew Miller's talent is to allow us into their world - into their houses and into their minds - so that we see them both as young marrieds in an English village in the coldest winter of the twentieth century and as souls passing through the snowstorms of time -- Tim Pears, author of The West Country Trilogy
A beautifully written, slow-burn portrait of a moment and place in time, it excavates the intricacies of the human heart -- Editor's Choice * The Bookseller *

PRAISE FOR ANDREW MILLER
'His writing is a source of wonder and delight' HILARY MANTEL
'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind' SUNDAY TIMES
'Unique, visionary, a master at unmasking humanity' SARAH HALL