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Afternoon Reading: Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air and Other Stories

Afternoon Reading: Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air and Other Stories: Episode 1: Winter in the Air

Winter in the Air and Other Stories

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Episode 1: Winter in the Air

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air and Other Stories

Winter in the Air

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A woman contemplates the end of her marriage and her new life in her solitary flat.

4 Extra Debut. A woman contemplates the end of her marriage and her new life in her solitary flat in 1950s London. Read by Susannah Harker.

Winter in the Air is the title story from Sylvia Townsend Warner's recently republished collection in which a woman reflects on the final and difficult days of her marriage. At the same time she looks ahead to her new life in her solitary flat in 1950s London.

The stories in this collection were written between 1938 and 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, and the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. Sylvia Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her time was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and poetry. She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These stories illustrate her talent for sharp, insightful, and vivid storytelling.

The reader is Susannah Harker
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Written between 1938 and 1950, these stories capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, and the lot of women in mid 20th-century England

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