This is a novel of secrets, sexuality and, ultimately, of great love. Patrick Gale A Place Called Winter Kindle Edition by Patrick Gale (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 1,606 ratings Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 97.73 1 Used from 129.00 3 New from 97. 28, 2015 British novelist Gale ( A Perfectly Good Man, 2012, etc. 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. a place called winter by Patrick Gale RELEASE DATE: Dec. On a plain wooden chair was a neat stack of underwear, shirts and socks he knew were not his either. A suit that wasn't his hung on a hanger on the next peg along. His boots were on the floor and his coat on a hook above them. 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. There was a rag rug beside the bed and a bedside table with a lamp and matches on it. 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. A Place Called Winter Patrick Gale Grand Central Publishing, Fiction - 384 pages 12 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. I loved it.' - Jojo MoyesĪ privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. 'Patrick Gale has written a book which manages to be both tender and epic, and carries the unmistakable tang of a true story.

A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale