{"product_id":"cold-by-a-s-byatt-9781784746858","title":"Cold","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tale of mythic beauty, elemental passion and hope from one of our greatest storytellers, with an afterword by R. F. Kuang.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The snow did not numb Fiammarosa; it pricked and hummed and brought her, intensely, to life . . . This is who I am, the cold princess thought to herself, wriggling for sheer pleasure in the snow-dust, this is what I want.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA princess is born in summer. Frail from infancy, she is cosseted by all who surround her and, as she grows, is protected from the elements outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne winter's night, she escapes into the castle's grounds and discovers that, far from the cold being harmful, it awakens her. She is an icewoman: she becomes her true self in the frost and snow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut when the princes arrive - as princes must - the princess awakens a second time. Falling unexpectedly for a young glassblowing royal from the hot southern lands, she is faced with a choice. Should she follow him to the desert and live a life unfulfilled? Or remain where she is and live without love?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for A. S. Byatt:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights\" The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A master of the short story\" David Mitchell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"[An] exhilarating genius\" Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A S Byatt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57535227396469,"sku":"9781784746858","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781784746858.jpg?v=1788082150","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/cold-by-a-s-byatt-9781784746858","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}