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Review: A Girl In Winter

User Review - James Murphy - Goodreads

I came to A Girl in Winter familiar with Larkin's poetry. But I'd never before read any of his prose, whether fiction or reviews. Not knowing anything about it other than the impressive credentials of ... Read full review

Review: A Girl in Winter

User Review - Mosca - Goodreads

************************** The first three paragraphs, as well as the last two paragraphs clearly intone our somber isolated world and its dilemmas. These act as bookends for a work also structured as ... Read full review

Review: A Girl in Winter

User Review - AJ Brenchley - Goodreads

I really enjoyed this -- and I hope it's all right if I say that I think it especially accomplished, considering that the author was very young at time of writing it (24, if my memory is correct). It ... Read full review

Review: A Girl In Winter

User Review - Marzie - Goodreads

The lyrical prose in this is beautiful yet underneath lies a story of incredible sadness. Read full review

Review: A Girl in Winter

User Review - Laura - Goodreads

From BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial: In wintery wartime Britain, Katherine Lind, exiled and alone, endures her job as an assistant in an obscure provincial library with an unpleasant boss and ... Read full review

Review: A Girl in Winter

User Review - Bettie - Goodreads

On a wintery Saturday in wartime Britain, Katherine Lind remembers a summer holiday she spent with an English boy and his family. Today, she might hear from him again. Do those who cultivate a social ... Read full review

Review: A Girl in Winter

User Review - Don - Goodreads

Poignant. Absorbing. Hopeful. Read full review

Review: A Girl in Winter

User Review - Kris - Goodreads

Philip Larkin in Oxford, 1943 Philip Larkin opens A Girl in Winter with a chapter, three paragraphs long, in which he describes England during World War II, suffering through a stormy winter, its ... Read full review

Review: A Girl in Winter

User Review - Marie - Goodreads

One of my favorite books. Like The House in Paris, the current action takes place in one day, waiting, while the backstory happens in the middle. It could really be called A Girl in Summer, as the crux of the book happens one idyllic summer before WWII. I like to read this in the summer. Read full review