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Helen Dunmore was an award-winning novelist, children's author and poet. She published twelve novels including Zennor in Darkness, which won the McKitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter, which won the inaugural Orange Prize in 1996; Talking to the Dead; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby and House of Orphans. She was posthumously awarded the Costa 2017 prize for her poetry collection Inside the Wave.<p>A <b>marvellous </b>novel about forbidden passions and the terrible consequences of thwarted love. <b>Dunmore is one of the finest English writers</b></p>
Daily Mail
<p>A hugely involving story which often <b>stops you in your tracks </b>with the <b>beauty of its writing </b></p>
Observer
<p>An <b>electrifying and original talent</b>, a writer whose style is characterized by a <b>lyrical, dreamy intensity</b></p>
Guardian
<b>Tense, dark and intensely gripping</b> . . . written so <b>seductively </b>that<b> passages sing out from the page</b>
Sunday Times
Her prose is poetic in its emotional range and intensity
TLS
<b>Unsettling love</b> and <b>stifled horror</b> create and then destroy the<b> claustrophobic world of this lush, literary Gothic set in turn-of-the-century England</b>. In true Gothic fashion, terror, violence and eroticism collect beneath every dark surface. . . .<b> A finely crafted, if disturbing, literary page-turner</b>
Publishers Weekly
It bears the <b>distinctive lyrical beauty</b> of its predecessors . . . Helen Dunmore is an unusually fine writer. There is<b> a strong and sensuous magic </b>to <i>A Spell of Winter</i>
Gill Hornby in The Times
<b>One of our finest writers</b>
Philip Pullman
<b>Immensely sad, quite beautiful</b>, and deserves to be read by all lovers of good novel
The Bookseller