📗 Libro en inglés THE LAND IN WINTER

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 already faltering There is affection if not always love in both homes these are marriages that still hold some promise But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards a true winter the harshest in living memory the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel Where do you hide when you can t leave home And where in a frozen world could you run