It is a novel of secrets, sexuality and, ultimately, of great love. In this exquisite journey of self-discovery, loosely based on a real life family mystery, Patrick Gale has created an epic, intimate human drama, both brutal and breathtaking. 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.

To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything. 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. A Place Called Winter: Costa Shortlisted 2015 by Gale, Patrick and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at .uk. From the author of the best-selling Notes from an Exhibition comes an irresistible, searching, and poignant historical novel of love, relationships, secrets, and escape. It certainly dealt with exile but I read it more of a story about identity than fear and loss. 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. According to the judges of the 2015 Costa Book Awards, Patrick Gale’s novel A Place Called Winter is A sensitive, beautifully structured story of loss, fear, exile and hope. To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.Ī privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. ** Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 **

A place called winter by patrick gale