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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



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"'A Girl in Winter is a beautifully constructed, funny and profoundly sad book.' Andrew Motion"

A Girl in Winter

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    A Paperback / softback by Philip Larkin

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 3 March 2005
      ISBN-13 9780571225811
      978-0571225811
      ISBN-10 571225810
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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



      Trade Review
      "'A Girl in Winter is a beautifully constructed, funny and profoundly sad book.' Andrew Motion"

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