A Place Called Winter edition by Patrick Gale Literature Fiction eBooks
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** Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015 **
From the writer of BBC TV's MAN IN AN ORANGE SHIRT comes Sunday Times Top Ten hardback and paperback bestseller, A PLACE CALLED WINTER - picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club.
'A mesmerising storyteller; this novel is written with intelligence and warmth' The Times
To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.
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.
A Place Called Winter edition by Patrick Gale Literature Fiction eBooks
I had waited for the launch of this book with great anticipation, but it did not live up to my expectations.I found the first few pages intriguing. However the story then reverts from the present to the past life of Harry Cane, and the first half of the book did not hold my attention. I found the character of Harry Cane a little too indolent and spineless, and failed to understand why, after a childhood at a British boy's boarding school, he did not realize his homosexual tendencies. His marriage was obviously one of convenience for both parties. So sad that homosexuals felt it necessary to marry in order to meet conventions at that time.
Although the story gains momentum in the second half when Cane journeys to Canada, some of the other characters are one-dimensional, especially that of Troels Munck who reminded me of the evil villain in a Victorian melodrama. Munck appears intermittently throughout the novel as if he just "pops in" at Moose Jaw or Winter. Given the immense distances from England to the Canadian prairies, and the time the journey took in those days, I found his conveniently timed appearances a little difficult to believe.
I enjoyed the beautiful sketches of the prairie landscape and the family scenes at Moose Jaw, which I found totally credible. But the scene with Ursula near the end just did not work for me, and the leaps from the Bethel rehabilitation centre back to the past disrupted the flow of the story.
Wonderful prose, evocative descriptions, but the story just did not engage me emotionally.
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A Place Called Winter edition by Patrick Gale Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
My first taste of Gale and will not be my last. I had no idea what the book was about. I was constantly surprised by a British beginning. Bias and ethnicity played centrally for a while. Then the ship-board voyage became more intriguing. The Canadian frontier came alive for me. I could feel the cold of winter, the warmth of a fire, the depth of a kiss. A things got more complicated, I felt I was a member of the family and was literally kicked in the gut when things got testy. The little touches of familiarity, chaste love, home-spun goodness, and innate evil all interplayed so much for me that I never wanted the book to end.
Incredible book. I could not put it down or let it go after I finished the book. Beautiful story with drama, violence and redemption. A huge reminder of the human condition. I will never forget this book. Beautifully written. poignantly told and magnificent in scope. This is one book I will never forget and I would not want to.
Beautiful and sensitive novel showing the problems gay people had at the beginning of the 20th Century to even give a name to their orientation. The story is rich in characters and situations and keeps the thrill till the very end. A masterpiece of Patrick Gale.
The book starts slowly, and I was left wondering where it was leading, but after the disastrous episode with the diary, the pace quickens. However, this is not the kind of novel with quick turns of plot but more like a biography, the gradual revelation of a man's character both to himself and to the reader. The so- called deviant sexuality ( for those days) is tastefully handled. The ending is very satisfying.
This is the story of an outwardly conventional man in England around the turn of the 20th Century who is forced to leave his wife and daughter as a result of the discovery of his affair with another man. So he takes off across the ocean to homestead in the western part of the Canadian prairie. Though I cannot relate to same-sex attraction, I found myself being sympathetic and inspired by the lead character (Harry). Seemingly an unlikely man to strike out on such a change of life, the development of his character is evident as he grapples with the challenges of carving out a life on the frontier. Ultimately, he forms a relationship with a brother and sister on a nearby quarter section of land and I found that the sister was a well-developed and inspiring character, while the brother remained rather one-dimensional. It seemed somewhat odd that the brother (Paul), who Harry came to love in the end, remained somewhat of a mystery, but maybe that's okay. Anyway, the story really held me and some of the characters came to life for me in a compelling way.
A PLACE CALLED WINTER is the first book in ages which I read in a single day, migrating from chair to bed, drinking wine and tea. What a moving story of a young man in Edwardian England, born rich and marrying well without any job, who when he finds he is drawn to men, is evicted from his family. He escapes near penniless to Canada where he becomes a farmer, working until he drops, finding love and friendship, and winning victory over himself and his acres of earth but not without many obstacles and growing finally into a strong, steadfast and kind man. Count me as a true Patrick Gale fan!
I loved the start of A Place Called Winter, the building of the principal character, the exploration of a particular strand of society as the 19th century turned to the 20th and I felt this was definitely a novel I would enjoy. Then the storyline took a major step sideways. Moving continent, moving society, moving way of life, the story still had appeal, albeit a very different direction. Well written, engaging to an extent, my problem with A Place Called Winter was its circular storyline. Characters came, characters left and in the end, the story seemed to have gone all the way back to the start without any great impact. Even the most dramatic, harrowing scenes were quite ... humdrum as presented. At the end, sorry to say, I felt quite indifferent to the whole saga.
I had waited for the launch of this book with great anticipation, but it did not live up to my expectations.
I found the first few pages intriguing. However the story then reverts from the present to the past life of Harry Cane, and the first half of the book did not hold my attention. I found the character of Harry Cane a little too indolent and spineless, and failed to understand why, after a childhood at a British boy's boarding school, he did not realize his homosexual tendencies. His marriage was obviously one of convenience for both parties. So sad that homosexuals felt it necessary to marry in order to meet conventions at that time.
Although the story gains momentum in the second half when Cane journeys to Canada, some of the other characters are one-dimensional, especially that of Troels Munck who reminded me of the evil villain in a Victorian melodrama. Munck appears intermittently throughout the novel as if he just "pops in" at Moose Jaw or Winter. Given the immense distances from England to the Canadian prairies, and the time the journey took in those days, I found his conveniently timed appearances a little difficult to believe.
I enjoyed the beautiful sketches of the prairie landscape and the family scenes at Moose Jaw, which I found totally credible. But the scene with Ursula near the end just did not work for me, and the leaps from the Bethel rehabilitation centre back to the past disrupted the flow of the story.
Wonderful prose, evocative descriptions, but the story just did not engage me emotionally.
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