{"product_id":"winter-in-the-air","title":"Winter In The Air","description":"\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312424362366,"sku":"NW9780571375462","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571375462.jpg?v=1778530681","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/winter-in-the-air","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}