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A Place Called Winter: Costa Shortlisted 2015
Patrick Gale
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Description for A Place Called Winter: Costa Shortlisted 2015
Paperback. If you've never read a Patrick Gale, stop now and pick up the Sunday Times hardback and paperback bestseller, A PLACE CALLED WINTER. From the author of NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION comes an irresistible, searching and poignant historical novel of forbidden love, secrets and escape Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 266.
** Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 ** From the writer of BBC TV's MAN IN AN ORANGE SHIRT comes Sunday Times Top Ten hardback and paperback bestseller, A PLACE CALLED WINTER - picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. 'A mesmerising storyteller; this novel is written with intelligence and warmth' The Times To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything. A shy but privileged elder son, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. 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 force him to abandon his wife and child and sign up for emigration to Canada. 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. And yet it is here, isolated in a seemingly harsh landscape, under the threat of war and madness that the fight for survival will reveal in Harry an inner strength and capacity for love beyond anything he has ever known before.
Product Details
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472205315
SKU
V9781472205315
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99
About Patrick Gale
Patrick Gale was born on the Isle of Wight. He spent his infancy at Wandsworth Prison, which his father governed, then grew up in Winchester before going to Oxford University. He now lives on a farm near Land's End. One of this country's best-loved novelists, his most recent works are A Perfectly Good Man, the Richard and Judy bestseller Notes From An Exhibition, and the Costa-shortlisted A Place Called Winter. His original BBC television drama, Man In An Orange Shirt, was shown to great acclaim in 2017 as part of the BBC's Queer Britannia series, leading viewers around the world to discover his novels.
Reviews for A Place Called Winter: Costa Shortlisted 2015
A gripping and deeply moving book about love, fear and hope
Irish Times
An epic, intimate human drama, both brutal and breathtaking
Hereford Times
Be inspired by Patrick Gale's entree to historical fiction... the deep undercurrents of love and desire that give the novel its pull will awaken you
Independent magazine
[A] fascinating novel
Helen Dunmore
Guardian
A gorgeously written, bittersweet story about secrets and identity
Good Housekeeping
Lightness of touch, one of Gale's characters observes, is desirable in a novelist, and it is one of Gale's virtues...Rich in atmosphere and period detail...this enjoyable tale is both witty and poignant
Daily Mail
Gale employs his gift as a writer to will such pockets of tolerance retrospectively into existence - for the sake of his relative, as well, perhaps, as for all of us. Humanity does not look quite so wretched through Patrick Gale's eyes
Spectator
A mesmerising storyteller; this novel is written with intelligence and warmth
The Times
Mr Gale often uses autobiographical detail to good effect; here, he has excelled himself with the historical detail, resulting in a beautifully written, satisfying story that deserves to be a bestseller
Country Living Magazine
Gale is a skilful storyteller
Metro
This is a convincing and fascinating portrait of daily life over a century ago in a far away place. The mixture of adventure, historical saga and romance is utterly heartwrenching
Sunday Mirror
His best book yet
Country Life
Gale is not a sentimental writer, he's vividly aware of hardship and despair, but the overwhelming emotion in this fine book is one of tender, life-affirming joy
Sun
A master storyteller. Quite simply, you believe every word he tells you
Independent on Sunday
A dramatic and affecting portrayal of dislocation, extreme environments and the traumatic effects of enforced secrecy
Observer
This is an intensely personal book. Gale was inspired by a true tale from his own family history, and the depth of feeling shows. It's one gay man reaching out to another across a century of social change, and his most powerfully moving novel yet
Independent
A tender tale of loss and love
Sunday Times
Bold, moving, intensely erotic - I couldn't put down this tale of passion and endurance, told with such tenderness.
Patricia Duncker Beautifully structured around the warmest of warm hearts, but it's also run through with something new: a devastating chill of loss, fear and exile which keeps you shaking your head and biting your lip in concern and shame and disbelief.
Louisa Young Absorbing, moving and beautifully written, with echoes of EM Forster which I found especially enjoyable.
Amanda Craig Patrick Gale has written a book which manages to be both tender and epic, and carries the unmistakeable tang of a true story. I loved it.
Jojo Moyes
Irish Times
An epic, intimate human drama, both brutal and breathtaking
Hereford Times
Be inspired by Patrick Gale's entree to historical fiction... the deep undercurrents of love and desire that give the novel its pull will awaken you
Independent magazine
[A] fascinating novel
Helen Dunmore
Guardian
A gorgeously written, bittersweet story about secrets and identity
Good Housekeeping
Lightness of touch, one of Gale's characters observes, is desirable in a novelist, and it is one of Gale's virtues...Rich in atmosphere and period detail...this enjoyable tale is both witty and poignant
Daily Mail
Gale employs his gift as a writer to will such pockets of tolerance retrospectively into existence - for the sake of his relative, as well, perhaps, as for all of us. Humanity does not look quite so wretched through Patrick Gale's eyes
Spectator
A mesmerising storyteller; this novel is written with intelligence and warmth
The Times
Mr Gale often uses autobiographical detail to good effect; here, he has excelled himself with the historical detail, resulting in a beautifully written, satisfying story that deserves to be a bestseller
Country Living Magazine
Gale is a skilful storyteller
Metro
This is a convincing and fascinating portrait of daily life over a century ago in a far away place. The mixture of adventure, historical saga and romance is utterly heartwrenching
Sunday Mirror
His best book yet
Country Life
Gale is not a sentimental writer, he's vividly aware of hardship and despair, but the overwhelming emotion in this fine book is one of tender, life-affirming joy
Sun
A master storyteller. Quite simply, you believe every word he tells you
Independent on Sunday
A dramatic and affecting portrayal of dislocation, extreme environments and the traumatic effects of enforced secrecy
Observer
This is an intensely personal book. Gale was inspired by a true tale from his own family history, and the depth of feeling shows. It's one gay man reaching out to another across a century of social change, and his most powerfully moving novel yet
Independent
A tender tale of loss and love
Sunday Times
Bold, moving, intensely erotic - I couldn't put down this tale of passion and endurance, told with such tenderness.
Patricia Duncker Beautifully structured around the warmest of warm hearts, but it's also run through with something new: a devastating chill of loss, fear and exile which keeps you shaking your head and biting your lip in concern and shame and disbelief.
Louisa Young Absorbing, moving and beautifully written, with echoes of EM Forster which I found especially enjoyable.
Amanda Craig Patrick Gale has written a book which manages to be both tender and epic, and carries the unmistakeable tang of a true story. I loved it.
Jojo Moyes