Winter Love by Suyin Han

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, cafés eking out tins of powdered egg-Winter Love evokes the exhilaration and the peril of living and loving in a city under siege.
First published in 1962, this novella was long overlooked in Han's prolific career. "Probably the best thing she has ever written" ( Daily Telegraph ), it is also Han Suyin's most unexpected, tender, and stirring work.