Gale has populated his novel with good characters, both people who are simply likeable – most who would welcome the changes we are making today – as well as those who make hassle these ‘villains’ at good at presenting the problems and reasoning in the historical context. When his affair with another man is discovered, Harry’s given two options – leave his family and country or be turned in – and so the book moves on in its location but not its look at Harry’s sexuality. It would be impossible to talk about this book without revealing the main plot point, as it’s too important Harry is gay – not always conscious of the fact, or at least not to the reader – living in a time when it was illegal to act on it. A book with a definite main plot but lots of supporting elements, Gale’s novel offers a sumptuous escape into history alongside a hard story of discrimination. Now in hypnotherapy he has a chance to find out why he was in the asylum in the first place the mental journey back will take him from Britain to Canada, from family man to outcast, inherited wealth to pioneering homesteader.Ī Place Called Winter is an epic historical with a similar atmosphere (due to both time period and writing) as Anna Hope’s Wake, though the stories are very different. In the early 1900s, Harry is in an asylum and given forced bathing treatments until he is brought to a more holistic treatment centre for people whose lives and personalities do not fit the social norm.
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