Winter in the Air by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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.
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was a poet, novelist, journalist and musicologist. She grew up in Devonshire and was home-schooled for her rebellious behaviour. After World War II disrupted her musical studies, she moved to London to work in a munitions factory. With her partner Valentine Ackland, whom she lived with from 1930 until her death, Warner was active in the Communist Party in the fight against fascism and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. She wrote her acclaimed debut, Lolly Willowes, in 1926, followed by six more novels - Mr Fortune's Maggot, The True Heart, Summer Will Show, After the Death of Don Juan, The Corner That Held Them, and The Flint Anchor - and hundreds of stories and political articles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571375462 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571375464 |
| Title | Winter in the Air |
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2022-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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