{"product_id":"lolly-willowes-sylvia-townsend-warner-9780241454886","title":"Lolly Willowes (Sylvia Townsend Warner)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever . . . It tells the story of a woman who rejects the life that society has fixed for her in favour of freedom ... tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen Macdonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Witty, eerie, tender ... her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it' John Updike\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSylvia Townsend Warner\u003c\/b\u003e (1893-1978) grew up in rural Devonshire before moving to London and writing her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eLolly Willowes\u003c\/i\u003e (1926). With her partner Valentine Ackland, she was active in the Communist Party and served in the Red Cross during the Spanish Civil War. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eMr Fortune's Maggot\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe True Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSummer Will Show\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Death of Don Juan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Corner That Held Them\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Flint Anchor\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 176 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65806298906973,"sku":"K087126185","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8712618500001A.jpg?v=1788472756","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/lolly-willowes-sylvia-townsend-warner-9780241454886","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}