Honno's Welsh Women's Classics: Winter Sonata (Paperback)

from kevinashley

The only novel by a writer who died tragically young by her own hand. Described by a contemporary as "a precise and perfect work of art", but I don't find myself wholly in agreement with that assessment. It's a bleak work in many ways, concentrating on "the loneliness of the human condition" - wo...

from mahallett

an interesting book where NOTHING happens really.

from DieFledermaus

Not a bad book, but didn't do too much for me. It starts out as the story of Arthur Nettle, a quiet man who moves to a small town. He observes his harried landlady and her sullen teenage daughter Pauline and meets the Neran sisters, Olivia and Eleanor. Nettle falls in love with Olivia, but it's s...

from BeyondEdenRock

"He had arrived only the night before. It had been cold, rainy and depressing, but now on the first day here it was beautiful, as if to welcome him. Everywhere the trees were nearly bare, but a few golden leaves still clung to the black branches. The black curving lines and the gold leaves looked...

from BeyondEdenRock

"He had arrived only the night before. It had been cold, rainy and depressing, but now on the first day here it was beautiful, as if to welcome him. Everywhere the trees were nearly bare, but a few golden leaves still clung to the black branches. The black curving lines and the gold leaves looked...