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 - SpectatorĪ master storyteller. 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

Daily Telegraph, Sydneyįrom 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.

And while the focus is on a gay character, it's relevant to all. The book may be set in the past, but it has a contemporary story to tell. Patrick Gale treats the love that dare not speak its name with insight and sensitivity. There, in a place called Winter, he will come to find a deep love within an alternative family, a love imperiled by war, madness and an evil man of undeniable magnetism. When a chance encounter awakens scandalous desires never acknowledged until now, however, Harry is forced to forsake the land and people he loves for a harsh new life as a homesteader on the newly colonized Canadian prairies. They settle by the sea and have a daughter and conventional marriage does not seem such a tumultuous change after all. 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. From the author of the bestselling NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION comes an irresistible, searching and poignant historical novel of love, relationships, secrets and escape If you've never read a Patrick Gale, stop now and pick up this book.

A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale