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Jill, Paperback / softback Book

Jill Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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

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