When does passion turn to love? When does responsibility mean guilt? When does a death become a murder? In A Bad Winter these hefty questions stir up echoes through time, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, to create an intimate and powerful tale of personal lives in freefall. With her trademark pictorial prose and beautifully phrased metaphors, novelist Samantha Priestley has created a ghostly romance set among wintry Derbyshire hills, and a shivering good read. Praise for Samantha Priestley "Taut, lyrical, effective. Not a word wasted" Tessa Hadley (author, The Past) "Moving, powerful and thought provoking" Somerset County Gazette "A dramatic writer of immense talent" Crimesquad.com