Book overview
"[A] silvery, suggestive novella of love and friendship. The year is 1944, the place is London, and all the young men are at war. We find ourselves at Horsham Science College with a group of women . . . Read if you like: Sally Rooney, E.M. Forster, the Todd Haynes film Carol." --Molly Young, The New York Times
An unheralded queer classic set 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, jealousy, and self-doubt that sweep all her previous experiences aside and will leave her changed forever.
Set against the rubble and austerity of wartime London--barrage balloons overhead, blackout curtains drawn, caf