Winter in the Air: 'Masterpieces: hand yourself over to be enchanted.' (Guardian)
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past100 years.' Sarah Waters 'Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted.'Guardian 'Extraordinary, lucid wildness.' Helen MacDonald 'Glinting perfection' The Times Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuousmarriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before elopingto Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery ofthe short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia TownsendWarner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements, from marriagesand affairs to widowhood; and a champion of outsiders, whether singlewomen, the elderly or wartime refugees. Witty and subversive, her stories meld tradition and transgression, with secretsins and fetishes as much a feature of English life as eccentric aunts, country houses and parish churches.
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past100 years.' Sarah Waters 'Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted.'Guardian 'Extraordinary, lucid wildness.' Helen MacDonald 'Glinting perfection' The Times Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuousmarriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before elopingto Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery ofthe short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia TownsendWarner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements, from marriagesand affairs to widowhood; and a champion of outsiders, whether singlewomen, the elderly or wartime refugees. Witty and subversive, her stories meld tradition and transgression, with secretsins and fetishes as much a feature of English life as eccentric aunts, country houses and parish churches.
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Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past100 years.' Sarah Waters 'Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted.'Guardian 'Extraordinary, lucid wildness.' Helen MacDonald 'Glinting perfection' The Times Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuousmarriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before elopingto Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery ofthe short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia TownsendWarner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements, from marriagesand affairs to widowhood; and a champion of outsiders, whether singlewomen, the elderly or wartime refugees. Witty and subversive, her stories meld tradition and transgression, with secretsins and fetishes as much a feature of English life as eccentric aunts, country houses and parish churches.
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past100 years.' Sarah Waters 'Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted.'Guardian 'Extraordinary, lucid wildness.' Helen MacDonald 'Glinting perfection' The Times Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuousmarriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a cafe before elopingto Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery ofthe short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia TownsendWarner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements, from marriagesand affairs to widowhood; and a champion of outsiders, whether singlewomen, the elderly or wartime refugees. Witty and subversive, her stories meld tradition and transgression, with secretsins and fetishes as much a feature of English life as eccentric aunts, country houses and parish churches.
Winter in the Air: 'Masterpieces: hand yourself over to be enchanted.' (Guardian)