{"product_id":"9781529354300","title":"The Land in Winter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDecember 1962, the West Country.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcross the field, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, 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 he bought, a place where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that's already faltering.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is affection - if not always love - in both homes: these are marriages that still hold some promise. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards - a true winter, the harshest in living memory - the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere do you hide when you can't leave home? And where, in a frozen world, could you run to?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew Miller","offers":[{"title":"Hodder | Paperback | 2025-12-30","offer_id":48222079025407,"sku":"9781529354300","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f281f087-ad51-46db-b65a-3170e917aac7.jpg?v=1772138494","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781529354300","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}