Midwinter (häftad, eng)

''Finely judged writing like this comes from a place of instinct, and it marks Melrose out as someone to watch . . . Midwinter is a great success'' Melissa Harrison, Guardian

Father and Son, Landyn and Vale Midwinter, are Suffolk farmers, living together on land their family has worked for generationsBut they are haunted there by a past they have long refused to confront: the death of Cecelia, beloved wife and mother, when Vale was just a child. Both men have carried her loss, unspoken.

Until now.

With the onset of a mauling winter, something between them snaps.

While Vale makes increasingly desperate decisions, Landyn retreats, finding solace in the land, his animals - and a vixen who haunts the farm and seems to bring with her both comfort and protection.

Tender and lyrical, alive to language and nature, Midwinter is a novel about guilt, blame, lost opportunities and, ultimately, it is a story about love and the lengths we will go to find our way home.

''Melrose elegantly weaves narratives detailing the men''s internal tumult with lush descriptions of their natural surroundings . . A moving story about the cruelty of chance, modern masculinity and the transformative power of the bonds between men'' Financial Times

''I have rarely read a narrative voice as distinctive as Landyn''s, and the loving depiction of regional English working-class masculinity is unusual and timely . . This is certainly not a light-hearted book, but it offers the true consolation of some very good writing'' Sarah Moss, TLS

''A penetrating study of grief and guilt'' Daily Mail