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 literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.' Andrew Motion
| ISBN: | 9780571225828 |
| Publication date: | 3rd March 2005 |
| Author: | Philip Larkin |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 230 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction First World War fiction |