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 exploring the enticing obsessive power, and long agonising hold, of love.
Winter Love Summary
Winter Love by Han Suyin
First published in 1962, Winter Love is an explosive unpredictable love story told in exquisite, intimate prose.
Winter Love Reviews
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
About Han Suyin
Han Suyin was born in China in 1917. A prominent documentarist of the political turbulence of her home nation throughout the twentieth century, she is best known for her autobiographical novel A Many-Splendoured Thing. She wrote more than 20 books, set up and funded multiple literary foundations, and practised as a physician after attending medical school in Peking and London. She died in 2012.
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