Winter Love
Written by Suyin Han
Narrated by Lucy Scholes
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
The raw account of a life-altering affair in wartime London—“Han Suyin’s 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 Suyin’s most unexpected, tender, and stirring work.
Suyin Han
Han Suyin (ca. 1917–2012) was born to a Chinese father and Belgian mother in Xinyang in the north-central province of Henan. She qualified as a doctor in London, thereafter moving to Hong Kong. The success of her novel A Many-Splendored Thing (1952)—adapted into the Hollywood film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, starring William Holden and Jennifer Jones—enabled her to give up her medical career and focus on her writing. She went on to publish more than thirty books, including novels, memoirs, biographies, and volumes of cultural and political history.
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Reviews for Winter Love
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This story had me upset. Honestly Mara was right to have left tbh. Cuz she didn’t deserve the way Red started to treat her. I love and hate this story so much. Sorry but not sorry Red. It’s your damn fault.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent novel by an unfairly-forgotten author. Anyone who could make office politics at a small literary magazine this engrossing, hilarious, and, at times, heartbreaking deserves to be remembered better.