Winter Garden

Robert Edric (born 14 April 1956) is the pseudonym of Gary Edric Armitage, a British novelist born in Sheffield, England. He studied at the University of Hull and became a full-time writer, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his debut novel Winter Garden (1985), with works like Peacetime and Gathering the Water longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Critics have hailed him as one of the finest writers of historical fiction of his generation, though he has also authored a detective trilogy set in Hull.