Winter in the Air

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.

si un campion al celor din afara, fie ca sunt femei singure, batrani sau refugiati din timpul razboiului. Spiritoase si subversive, povestile ei imbina traditia si transgresiunea, cu pacatele secrete si fetisurile o trasatura a vietii englezesti la fel de mult ca matusile excentrice, casele de la tara si bisericile parohiale.