Gale Patrick: Mjesto zvano Winter

Patrick Gale: A Place Called Winter

A Place Called Winter is an extremely important and historically based story that gives a completely different insight into the fates of the once "mute", marginalized members of society.

Harry Cane has always led an extremely traditional life. As a privileged older son, extremely shy and self-effacing, he never deviated from the rules at all. However, everything changes the moment those around him find out the details of the extramarital affair he was leading.

Harry is forced to leave his wife and daughter and emigrate to the colonized areas of the Canadian wilderness. But his new home, the secluded town of Winter, is something completely different from the warm suburban atmosphere of Edwardian England to which he is accustomed. Harsh winters, isolation, a society where slightly different laws apply, difficult living conditions and the daily struggle with nature on the border between wildness and civilization is a new reality in which Harry must learn how to survive and how to come to terms with his own character and his own past.

Based on true historical events, the novel A Place Called Winter combines an intimate and tender family story with elements of harsh reality, while breaking many social taboos, and Gale in this novel about love, sexuality and hidden passions give voice to those who did not have it in society before.

"Harry Cane is one of the many who 'disappeared' because their families and surroundings no longer wanted them and whose stories were shrouded in shame for a long time. This fascinating novel is their elegy." - Guardian

"Gale's novels are imbued with psychological truths that lead us through the emotional expanses of the characters' interiors that it is impossible not to care about. An emotional and challenging novel. - Irish Times

"A captivating storyteller; this novel is written with great intelligence and warmth. - The Times

About the author of the novel A Place Called Winter:

Patrick Gale was born in Isle of Wight in 1962. He spent his early childhood in Wandsworth Prison, after which the family moved to Winchester. Today, he lives on a farm in the south-west of England with his husband Aidan Hicks, where, in addition to writing, he has written twenty novels, including The Aerodynamics of Pork (1985), Ease (1985), The Facts of Life (1995), Rough Music (2000), Notes from an Exhibition (2007), A Perfectly Good Man (2012), Take Nothing With You (2018).