“Never underestimate the drama in seemingly ordinary lives. That’s a lesson English novelist Andrew Miller reinforces to brilliant effect in The Land in Winter, finalist for the 2025 Booker Prize and a work that, like the legendary U.K. winter of 1962-63 that is the novel's setting, starts quietly but gathers immense power as it proceeds... There’s little plot here, but Miller delves deep in a way that’s rare for contemporary fiction. That may seem like a nice way of saying that this is old-fashioned storytelling, but it’s the good kind of old-fashioned, patient and thoughtful and generous rather than antiquated... Fans of the literary slow build will be dazzled.”
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