{"product_id":"9780571375462-winter-in-the-air","title":"Winter in the Air","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Masterpieces: hand yourself over to be enchanted.' (Guardian)\u003cbr\u003eand a champion of outsiders, whether single women, the elderly or wartime refugees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitty 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Christmas, 'hand yourself over to be enchanted' (\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eby the English genius behind \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewitchcraft classic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLolly Willowes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of our finest writers.' \u003c\/b\u003eNeil Gaiman\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.'\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Waters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Diminutive masterpieces . Hand yourself over to be enchanted.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary, lucid wildness.' \u003c\/b\u003eHelen MacDonald\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Glinting perfection' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDecades 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these bittersweet tales, the author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLolly Willowes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ereveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003efor decades. \u003cb\u003eSylvia Townsend Warner\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWitty 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943306342497,"sku":"9780571375462","price":7.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36387597.jpg?v=1759815845","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571375462-winter-in-the-air","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}