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A Place Called Winter: Costa Shortlisted 2015 by Patrick Gale - ISBN: 9781472205315
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Scandal, forbidden love, and a new life waiting in Winter.

A Place Called Winter: Costa Shortlisted 2015

The epic and tender bestselling novel of love, compassion and living again

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    384 pages

  • Release Date

    10 November 2015

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Summary

In the golden 1900s, Harry Cane, a shy, eligible gentleman of leisure, is drawn from a life of quiet routine into courting and marrying Winnie, eldest daughter of the fatherless Wells clan, who are not quite as respectable as they would appear.

They settle by the sea and have a daughter, and a conventional marriage does not seem such a tumultuous change after all. When a chance encounter awakens scandalous desires never acknowledged until now, however, Harry is forced to forsake the l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472205315
ISBN-10:1472205316
Author:Patrick Gale
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:Tinder Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:10 November 2015
Weight:272g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 28mm
Series:Sister Fidelma
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Critics Review

A master storyteller. Quite simply, you believe every word he tells you– Independent on Sunday

Patrick Gale treats the love that dare not speak its name with insight and sensitivity… - Sydney Morning Herald

The book may be set in the past, but it has a contemporary story to tell. And while the focus is on a gay character, it’s relevant to all. - Daily Telegraph, Sydney

From the powerful opening in a mental asylum until the story comes full circle, this novel will captivate with its extraordinary and layered content that was inspired by real events. - Good Reading Australia

What Gale does so well is to delineate the unpremeditated consequences of actions…The final chapter left me with a lump in my throat - Guardian

Late at night on the day a new Patrick Gale arrives I am always to be found crouching on the icy bathroom floor, banished from the bedroom for keeping my husband awake, feverishly turning the pages - Spectator

A master storyteller. Quite simply, you believe every word he tells you - Independent on Sunday

A writer with heart, soul, and a dark and naughty wit, one whose company you relish and trust - Observer

About The Author

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 in Cornwall.

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