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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Page 78
... once , she could find nothing about him to fix on . Blinking , she looked out of the window too : they were on the edge of London . It was a Saturday after- noon and the rows of new brick houses were brilliantly shadowed in the sun . Once ...
... once , she could find nothing about him to fix on . Blinking , she looked out of the window too : they were on the edge of London . It was a Saturday after- noon and the rows of new brick houses were brilliantly shadowed in the sun . Once ...
Page 167
... once more awoken regret in her that she must leave them . Now that the surface of their relations had quietened in her mind , she saw that only her inquisi- tive imagination had prevented the holiday being like this from the evening she ...
... once more awoken regret in her that she must leave them . Now that the surface of their relations had quietened in her mind , she saw that only her inquisi- tive imagination had prevented the holiday being like this from the evening she ...
Page 180
... once more . As long as she was travelling , she was safe . But safe ! safe from what ? It was time she faced the question . What did she remember of the Fennels , plainly and without embroidery ? There had been Robin , of course ; he ...
... once more . As long as she was travelling , she was safe . But safe ! safe from what ? It was time she faced the question . What did she remember of the Fennels , plainly and without embroidery ? There had been Robin , of course ; he ...
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