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
- ISBN10 0571225829
- ISBN13 9780571225828
- Publish Date 3 March 2005 (first published December 1964)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main - Re-issue
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English