A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
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.
"'A Girl in Winter is a beautifully constructed, funny and profoundly sad book' Andrew Motion"
Philip Larkin was an English novelist, librarian and celebrated poet, who has been awarded numerous honours including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in Coventry in 1922, he was educated at King Henry VIII School and Oxford University. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He also wrote two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), as well as two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Library and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. Larkin worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. In 2003, he was chosen as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous 50 years by a Poetry Book Society Survey, while in 2008, The Times named him Britain's greatest post-war writer. In 2016, a memorial was unveiled at Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571225811 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571225810 |
| Title | A Girl in Winter |
| Author | Philip Larkin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2005-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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