Book description
This, arguably Sylvia Townsend Warner's most luminous collection of
stories, was first published in 1966 and includes 'A Love Match',
hailed by the Los Angeles Times as 'a supreme example of her
technique.' It is the tale of Celia and Justin Tizard, sister and
war-scarred brother, whose uncommon closeness becomes the talk of a
small English village. 'Sylvia Townsend Warner was one of the most
talented and well-respected British authors of the twentieth century.
Today she is shamefully under-read. Her short stories have been
particularly neglected - and yet, intelligent, lyrical, beautifully
crafted, they constitute some of the very best of her work. It is
wonderful to see so many of them being made available again by Faber
Finds.' Sarah Waters
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) published seven novels, four
volumes of poetry and eight volumes of short stories. She also wrote the
biography of T. H. White, and spent ten years of her life as one of the
four editors of the ten-volume compilation Tudor Church Music. She lived
most of her adult life with her close companion Valentine Ackland. Faber
Finds are reissuing four volumes of her short stories: Winter in the
Air, A Spirit Rises, A Stranger with a Bag and Scenes of Childhood.
