{"product_id":"winter-in-the-air-9780571375462","title":"Winter in the Air","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis Christmas, bask in these 'diminutive masterpieces' (\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e) by the English genius behind \u003ci\u003eLolly Willowes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of our finest writers.\" -- Neil Gaiman\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years. \" -- Sarah Waters\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted.\"\u003c\/b\u003e -- \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Extraordinary, lucid wildness.\" -- Helen MacDonald\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these bittersweet tales, the author of \u003ci\u003eLolly Willowes\u003c\/i\u003e reveals 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50508871172370,"sku":"9780571375462","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_138066c5-5920-41ee-a761-3af801da0e51.jpg?v=1730881092","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/winter-in-the-air-9780571375462","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}