Winter in the Air
Author(s): Sylvia Townsend Warner
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 cafe before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend’s kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : Faber & Faber, Limited
- : 230.0
- : 01 March 2023
- : 198mm x 129mm x 198mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Sylvia Townsend Warner
- : Paperback
- : 272