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Jill | Philip Larkin

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'It will, I hope, still qualify for the indulgence traditionally extended to juvenilia,' wrote Philip Larkin, almost twenty years after the publication of his first novel. But Jill, with its exact evocation of place - Oxford in 1940 - and astute insight into character, emotions and social nuance, requires no such indulgence. It is a classic of its time, and shows many of the qualities that were later to distinguish Larkin's great, mature poetry.'Jill is, in a sense, a kind of cryptic manifesto. It is a novel about writing, about discovering a literary personality, and about the sorts of consolation that art can provide.' Andrew Motion

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Jill | Philip Larkin

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3⭐️ I enjoyed the early part of Jill, with descriptive campus narrative, and strong characterizations. While the kids in The Secret History inhaled drugs and alcohol, the pupils in Jill have afternoon tea with cakes and scones 👨‍🎓It starts getting weird in the middle, with the main character - poor student John Kemp - becoming a totally different version of himself. Still a good college novel, though.

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Jill | Philip Larkin

I shall do this for my kanji exercise

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Jill | Philip Larkin

My current read 😍 and am loving it so far. It‘s quite similar to Old School. College setting is my fav… especially the ones in early 20th century. Sigh… I just want to jump into the story and be one of the characters.

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