Jill
Jill
Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable ''friend'', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world …
‘Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.'' Joyce Carol Oates
‘Remarkable … A book about innocence.’ Simon Garfield
''A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.'' Andrew Motion
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Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable ''friend'', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world …
‘Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.'' Joyce Carol Oates
‘Remarkable … A book about innocence.’ Simon Garfield
''A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.'' Andrew Motion
