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Winter in the Air

'Masterpieces: hand yourself over to be enchanted.' (Guardian)
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About the book

This Christmas, 'hand yourself over to be enchanted' (

Guardian) by the English genius behind witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes.

'Worth £9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber) … It's exquisite and shivery, just like the stories within … By turns creepy, melancholy, horrifying, tragic and beltingly romantic.' Sunday Times 'One of our finest writers.' Neil Gaiman

'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 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 tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife.

In these bittersweet tales, the author of

Lolly Willowesreveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the

New Yorker for decades.

Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements, from marriages and affairs to widowhood; and a champion of outsiders, whether single women, the elderly or wartime refugees.

Witty and subversive, her stories meld tradition and transgression, with secret sins and fetishes as much a feature of English life as eccentric aunts, country houses and parish churches.

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Release date on Litres:
06 November 2024
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250 p.
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