Synopsis
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
Publisher information
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- ISBN: 9780571225828
- Number of pages: 256
- Dimensions: 123 x 17 x 17 mm
- Weight: 205g
- Languages: English
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Not enjoyable!
I bought this book as I read he is like Barbara Pym, whose books in general I like. I disagree he is like her for writing style. Not an enjoyable read!
