Winter in the Air

This Christmas, ''hand yourself over to be enchanted'' (Guardian) by the English genius behind witchcraft classic Lolly Willowes.

''Worth ¿9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber) ... It¿s exquisite and shivery, just like the stories within ... By turns creepy, melancholy, horrifying, tragic and beltingly romantic.'' Sunday Times
''One of our finest writers.'' Neil Gaiman
''One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years.'' Sarah Waters
''Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted.'' Guardian
''Extraordinary, lucid wildness.'' Helen MacDonald
''Glinting perfection'' The Times

Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a ca