Andrew Miller The Land in Winter review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman over de strenge winter van 1962 van de Engelse schrijver. Op 24 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Sceptre de nieuwe roman van schrijver Andrew Miller. De roman is door de jury geselecteerd voor de longlist van de Booker Prize 2025. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Andrew Miller The Land in Winter review en recensie

• “In the depths of Britain’s coldest winter, two neighbouring women forge a friendship in the countryside. It’s 1962 and they have both just become pregnant. Around them, the men are struggling: maimed by father figures, haunted by the past, hampered by the destructiveness of their own desires. As a winter storm wreaks havoc on their lives, these characters become pivotal figures in a community precariously balanced between history and future: between the damage wrought by the war and the freedom for women that lies ahead. In beautifully atmospheric prose, Andrew Miller brings suspense and mystery to this seemingly inconsequential chapter in British history.” (Booker Prize 2025 jury)
• “This is a quiet book about quiet lives, but the delicate attention Miller affords his characters’ inner lives makes for incredibly satisfying reading.” (Lucy Scholes, Financial Times)
• “The Land in Winter is a brilliant novel, but wrap your emotions up tight because Miller steers it expertly towards a desolate, distressing ending.” (Martin Chilton, Independent)
• “Psychologically acute… For 200 impeccable pages Miller gives us four intensely imagined inner lives… grippin.” (Times Literary Supplement)

The Land in Winter

• Auteur: Andrew Miller (Engeland)
• Soort boek: Engelse historische roman
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Sceptre
• Verschijnt: 24 oktober 2025
• Omvang: 384 pagina’s
• Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
• Prijs: £ 20,00
• Winnaar Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2025
• Winnaar Winston Graham Historcial Prize 2025
• Longlist Booker Prize 2025
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van Andrew Miller over de winter van 1962

December 1962, The West Country. 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, 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 where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that’s already faltering.

But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, 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, can you run to?

Andrew Miller was born in 1974 in Bristol, Engeland. His first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Slowworm’s Song and The Land in Winter, which won the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2025. Andrew Miller’s novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.

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