{"product_id":"winter-in-the-air-by-sylvia-townsend-warner-9780571375462","title":"Winter in the Air","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of our finest writers.\u003c\/em\u003e - Neil Gaiman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years.\u003c\/em\u003e - Sarah Waters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted.\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtraordinary, lucid wildness.\u003c\/em\u003e - Helen MacDonald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlinting perfection\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these bittersweet tales, the author of \u003cem\u003eLolly Willowes\u003c\/em\u003e reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46847341035756,"sku":"9780571375462","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11430733482391.jpg?v=1758936955","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/winter-in-the-air-by-sylvia-townsend-warner-9780571375462","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}