num_pages: 144
description: The raw account of a life-altering affair in wartime LondonHan Suyins outstanding achievement . . . her finest novel. (Alison Hennegan)As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944 Red falls in love with her married classmate Mara. Their affair unleashes a physical passion a jealousy and a sense of self-doubt that sweep all her previous experiences aside and will leave her changed forever. Set against the rubble of the bombed city in a time of gray austerity and deprivation Winter Love recalls a life at its most vivid. Probably the best thing she has ever written ( Daily Telegraph ) it is also Han Suyins most unexpected tender and stirring work.
language: None
title: Winter Love
publisher: Virago Press Ltd