This month we are reading Andrew Miller’s exquisitely written novel The Land in Winter. It’s a page-turning, character-driven novel about the British countryside in 1962. No shootouts, no ripped bodices, just perfect sentences.
A Best Book of the Year: The Guardian・Good Housekeeping・Independent
A Boston Globe Fall 2025 Most Anticipated Book
★ “Miller is an expert juggler of dark and light, of big and small, of seen and unseen… A masterful, acute, and very British novel, revealing the tensions of a time beset by winds of change.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
★ “A stunning portrait of domestic turmoil and post-WWII unease… A spectacularly vivid sense of gloom pervades the narrative… Even keener are the author’s crystalline depictions of his characters’ interior lives. This has the feel of an instant classic.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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For a short story this month, let’s read “What Wants to Be Shot” by Madeline ffitch.
Note that we’ve changed the meeting time to 4pm.