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A Place Called Winter

Auteur(s): Patrick Gale
Narrateur(s): Patrick Gale
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From the author of the best-selling Notes from an Exhibition comes an irresistible, searching, and poignant historical novel of love, relationships, secrets, and escape. To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything .

A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, 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 cost him everything.

Forced to abandon his wife and child, Harry signs up for emigration to the newly colonised Canadian prairies. 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, 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.

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. It is a novel of secrets, sexuality, and, ultimately, great love.

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Superb storytelling!

“A Place Called Winter”, by Patrick Gale

Brilliant 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This is a historical fiction inspired by the author’s great-grandfather . The setting is early 1900’s, starting in England and ending in the new colonized Canadian prairies, specifically in Saskatchewan.

The opening of the book was quite upsetting. The way people with mental illness were treated in the past was simply cruel. How easily they were dismissed as being relevant or even considered being human.

The story starts with a middle-aged Harry undergoing treatment in an experimental sanatorium, with no explanation how he got there or why, then the story flashes back to his earlier life. The dual timeline worked perfectly and provide us with a rich background of Harry's life and his search for self discovery.

If you are looking for an action book than this book is not for a good choice.

The story itself is heartbreaking and bleak, but the author was very sensitive and told the story with finesse and clarity. I also trust that he did an excellent historical research

The development of the storyline is slow, but the narrative is too good to notice it.

I loved the main character and Bethel, and I wished Bethel’s participation was bigger.

I thought that the writing and storytelling were superb, hence my ratings.

I so enjoyed the opening that I immediately purchased the audiobook (not available in my local library) which was narrated by the author and who did a terrific job as the narrator. I read the book (ebook and hardcover borrowed from the library) simultaneously, so my pleasure was doubled.

Hardcover: 352 pages

ebook (Kobo): 376 pages (default), 33 chapters, 102 words

Audiobook narrated by the author: 11.1 hours (normal speed), unabridged, but there is no author’s acknowledgment or the reading group guide.

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