num_pages: 352
description: 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. They settle by the sea and have a daughter and conventional marriage does not seem such a tumultuous change after all. 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. 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.If you've never read a Patrick Gale stop now and pick up this book. From the author of the bestselling NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION comes an irresistible searching and poignant historical novel of love relationships secrets and escape.
language: English
title: A Place Called Winter
publisher: Tinder Press