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A Place Called Winter

A Place Called Winter

Author(s): Patrick Gale

Location(s): London, Saskatchewan

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

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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.

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Dislocated and finding a unique way through life. Patrick Gale has once again delivered a very readable narrative, this time set in harsh climes. Long listed for the Walter Scott Prize 2016.

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