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User Review - Michael Moseley - GoodreadsPhilip Larkin was a poet of some note. John Kemp is a working class kid who having been coached by his English teacher, get a scholarship to Oxford during the war years. The story is a description of ... Read full review
Review: Jill
User Review - James - GoodreadsWhile he's much better known as a poet, it seems that Philip Larkin wrote a couple of novels as well. Jill tells the story of a young man, John Kemp, away from home for the first time, going up to ... Read full review
Review: Jill
User Review - Chris - GoodreadsLarkin's talent is very obvious here, but so is his youth. Clearly there was much he wanted to write about, and he crammed it all in. If the story had a little more shape, it might have been first ... Read full review
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User Review - Laura - GoodreadsFrom BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial: A young student arrives at Oxford and is drawn helplessly into his own imaginative world. Read full review
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User Review - Bettie - GoodreadsClassical Serial http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfz6 Duration: 58 minutes First broadcast: Sunday 31 March 2013 (view spoiler)[ BBC Blurbs: Dramatised for the first time on BBC Radio 4 by Robin ... Read full review
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User Review - GoodreadsIf you're familiar with Larkin's wearily fatalistic, self-assured, wry poetry, the first thing that will strike you about this book is how young Larkin seems; it was almost uncomfortable to read the ...
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User Review - Emma - GoodreadsThis was my first Larkin , and , despite wariness of beginning with a novel when he is more known and , possibly, more valued for his poetry , I was extremely glad I did. This is a short but charming ... Read full review
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User Review - Gillian - GoodreadsTrying to get through this one...I'll rate it if I ever finish. Right now it's a 2... Read full review
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User Review - Clare Tanner - GoodreadsA fascinating glimpse of Oxford in the early 1940's and the difficulties of being a poor scholar among the 'entitled' gilded youth. Also a reminder that binge drinking isn't a new phenomenon! Read full review
Review: Jill
User Review - Trawets - GoodreadsJill, was Philip Larkin's first novel, it tells the story of John Kemp and his first term at Oxford in 1942. John is a scholarship student from Huddersfield, he shares a room with Christopher Warner ... Read full review
