Jill - Philip Larkin

Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world …‘Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.' Joyce Carol Oates‘Remarkable … A book about innocence.’ Simon Garfield'A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a... Zobrazit více