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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

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Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English.... Read more

    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 03/03/2005
    ISBN13: 9780571225828, 978-0571225828
    ISBN10: 0571225829

    Number of Pages: 256

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    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

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