A Girl in WinterA Girl in Winter is the moving and enigmatic story of Katherine Lind, a European woman in wartime England. The vicious winter weather has paralyzed the countryside; the emotions of Katherine are frozen as well, as fear and loneliness increase her sense of isolation. By splicing the story of Katherine's sunlit 16th summer in between the halves of a single winter day on which the suitor of her youth returns to her present life, Larkin illuminates the process by which we learn to decipher and accommodate the longings of the heart. |
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... hair back over her ears , and suddenly came upon the letter lying by the opened milk - bottle on the table . It was quite obviously from Robin Fennel . It was not that she hadn't noticed it the first time , but her mind had been so ...
... hair back over her ears , and suddenly came upon the letter lying by the opened milk - bottle on the table . It was quite obviously from Robin Fennel . It was not that she hadn't noticed it the first time , but her mind had been so ...
Page 72
... hair , freckles and projecting - teeth English face . In this she had been wrong . The photograph showed him looking at the camera with his hands on his hips , lit by brilliant sunlight , wearing a cricket shirt . There was a swing in ...
... hair , freckles and projecting - teeth English face . In this she had been wrong . The photograph showed him looking at the camera with his hands on his hips , lit by brilliant sunlight , wearing a cricket shirt . There was a swing in ...
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... hair into place . " Right , " she said . She looked at him and saw him as he was , young and haggard . He must be as old as she , but did not look it . His face was sharp - featured , his jaw harsh from shaving , his teeth very white ...
... hair into place . " Right , " she said . She looked at him and saw him as he was , young and haggard . He must be as old as she , but did not look it . His face was sharp - featured , his jaw harsh from shaving , his teeth very white ...
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