The writer Andrew Miller will be at Giunti Odeon to present his latest novel La terra d'inverno (NN Editore), together with Luca Starita.

The Book

England, early 1960s. During the coldest winter of the century, Eric, a country doctor proud of his humble origins, lives a seemingly peaceful life alongside his beautiful and devoted wife, Irene. The couple is expecting their first child, but beneath the surface lies a growing rift: Eric has been having an affair with a married woman, whose presence awakens in him a longing to escape.

Hurt by her husband’s emotional distance, Irene finds solace in her friendship with Rita, a young pregnant woman who has recently moved with her husband Bill from London to a nearby farm. Yet even this new couple is restless: Bill struggles to adapt to rural life, while Rita tries to leave behind a past that continues to haunt her.

As the relentless snow isolates roads and homes, a fatal mistake by Eric shatters the fragile equilibrium, forcing each of them to confront their disappointed hopes.

With the insight of a master storyteller, Andrew Miller portrays a small community of people caught in a moment of historical change—when the weight of the past collides with the promise of freedom—and reveals their dreams and disillusionments, their ghosts and fears.

The Author

Andrew Miller is a British novelist who lives in Somerset. His works have received numerous awards: Ingenious Pain (Bompiani, 1999) won, among others, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for foreign literature. The Land in Winter was awarded the Walter Scott Prize and shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. NN Editore will also publish Oxygen.