Jill
£9.99
A subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by many critics as a classic of its kind.
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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
| Weight | 0.205 kg |
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| Dimensions | 12.3 × 1.7 × 1.7 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 230 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Main |
| Dewey | 823.914 (edition:22) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
