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The Land in Winter

by Andrew Miller

Marriage and memory in a winter-bound village

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

    Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

  • Editorial selection

    New York Times Editors’ Choice

    Named a New York Times Editors’ Choice

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Marriage and memory in a winter-bound village

Set in the English countryside in December 1962, the novel brings together two neighboring households: village doctor Eric and his pregnant wife, Irene, and farmhouse couple Rita and Bill, who are also expecting a child. A meeting between the women draws the families’ private histories and unsettled resentments into closer contact. As severe winter weather closes in, the story links domestic relationships with the pressures of a place and season marked by isolation. Its postwar setting and focus on two marriages give the novel a contained, interwoven frame for exploring memory, affection, and concealed tensions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in postwar historical fiction set in rural England.
  • Readers drawn to novels centered on marriage, family life, and intersecting households.
  • Readers who enjoy stories shaped by a specific season and setting.

Themes

Marriage and domestic lifeMemory and the pastHidden resentmentsRural winter settingPostwar England

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Book overview

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE・NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE・NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025


"This book is really special."--Sarah Jessica Parker, 2025 Booker Prize Judge


December 1962: Deep in the English countryside, two couples begin the day. Local doctor Eric commences his rounds in the village while his pregnant wife, Irene, wanders the rooms of their home. Across the field in a neighboring farmhouse, Rita is also expecting. Her mind swims with a past that her husband, Bill, prefers to forget.


When the two women meet, a clock starts. Affection still lingers in both homes; neither marriage is over. But when the ordinary cold of December gives way--ushering in violent blizzards of the harshest winter in living memory--so do the secret resentments harbored in all four lives. A masterclass in storytelling, The Land in Winter is proof yet again that Andrew Miller is one of our most dazzling chroniclers of the human heart.


"Tender, elegant, soulful and perfect...Superb."--Samantha Harvey, Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital


"A writer of such intimate and insightful prose that stealing away with him for a few hours in another world feels closer to trespassing than reading."--Ron Charles, Washington Post


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