If Winter Comes

"If Winter Comes follows the life of Mark Sabre from 1912 through 1919. The story takes place in an English suburb and focuses on the deterioration of Sabre's marriage and career, in large part due to Sabre's inability to adopt the worldview of the suburbanites, including his wife. Throughout the story, Sabre is reunited with his real love, the Lady Tybar, and deals with changes resulting from World War One. The book's title comes from the last lines of Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, "Oh Wind, / If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" And, in much the same way that nature destroys and replenishes, so does Sabre's life fall apart and reconstruct."--Kahnscorner.