Review: A girl in winter
Editorial Review - Kirkus ReviewsFrom England (where it was published in 1957 and is now scheduled for republication) this low keyed, and sometimes deliberately indistinct novel spends a day with Katherine Lind who comes to an unidentified city in this country from somewhere in Europe, during the war. The months she has spent alone in a drab room and in a friendless job in a public library have been brightened by the memory of Robin Fennel, whom she had visited on a holiday when in England six years before. This earlier experience occasions the extensive central inset of the novel which begins with her hopes of seeing Robin again. It ends when Robin appears suddenly, deceptively jaunty in his uniform, for his diffident charm has given way to restlessness, petulance, a certain pathos... Mr. Larkin is a poet and there are niceties of perception and phrase to grace his novel which is no more- really- than a brief encounter.
Review: A Girl In Winter
User Review - James Murphy - GoodreadsI 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 - GoodreadsI 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
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User Review - Marzie - GoodreadsThe 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 - GoodreadsFrom 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
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User Review - Bettie - GoodreadsOn 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 - GoodreadsPoignant. Absorbing. Hopeful. Read full review
Review: A Girl in Winter
User Review - GoodreadsPoignant. Absorbing. Hopeful.
Review: A Girl in Winter
User Review - Kris - GoodreadsPhilip 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
