内容简介：
A Spell of Winter was the winner of the 1996 Orange Prize. Catherine and her brother Rob do not know why they have been abandoned by their parents. In the house of their grandfather, "the man from nowhere", they make a passionate refuge for themselves against the terror of family secrets. While the world outside moves to the brink of war, their sibling love becomes fraught with dangers. But as Catherine fights free of the past, the spell of winter that has held her in its grasp begins to break.