Publisher's Synopsis
A long overdue reissue of a wonderful short intense novel by Han Suyin set in Blitz-ridden London and focusing on an illicit affair between two young women. Amazing flawed characters from start to finish.
From the moment Red encounters her charismatic new college classmate, Mara, she is drawn-in. Recently-married Mara is stylish and colourful and has a glamorous ease that lights-up wintry Blitz-ridden London. Their friendship soon becomes an illicit but exhilarating affair that begins in London digs and intensifies through strained trips to rural Wiltshire and the Welsh valleys. Winter Love is a charged novel exploring the enticing obsessive power, and long agonising hold, of love.
This short and intense shock of a book transports us to the dark streets of wartime London to experience the pleasures and pains of forbidden love. - Cathy Rentzenbrink
