![]() I had took my time reading this book in order to devour and absorb it because it is so wonderfully written.Īs Patrick Gale explores loss, friendship and sexuality within this novel he has captured the emotion in a way I've never experienced from a book before. 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.Ī Place Called Winter is one of the most poignant, brutal and breathtaking books that I have read in a long time. 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. 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.įorced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. ![]() To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.Ī privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Published 24th March 2015 by Tinder PressĪvailable from: Amazon, Waterstones and all other good bookshops ![]()
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