A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin – A Literary Rediscovery with Praise from Nina Stibbe

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Lose yourself in this tale of young love by the ‘best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.’ (Sunday Times)Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town. One winter’s day, she receives a telegram: and her thoughts drift back to falling in love with her pen-pal, Robin Fennel, on a glorious summer exchange. But on his return from the army, their reunion is not what they imagined … ‘Beautiful.’ Nina Stibbe’Remarkable . Diffused poetry.’ Simon Garfield’Highly sensitive . Reminiscent of Virginia Woolf.’ Joyce Carol Oates’Funny and profoundly sad.’ Andrew Motion’Strange and beautiful … Short, intense and obsessed with the tiny ballets of social interaction, they could only have been written by someone very young (the writer they most remind me of is Sally Rooney) … Weird but brilliant … Zingily contemporary.’ Sunday Times; 256 pages; 03/03/2005

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