A Girl in Winter

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The book has three parts, with parts one and three taking place in an unnamed English town on a single day in the early 1940s.

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What’s it like to grow up online and have every tantrum, every spot – even your first period – broadcast to hundreds of thousands of followers? As the story unfurls towards her anticipated reunion with Robin, Larkin poignantly captures Katherine’s sense of otherness in this 1940’s England of glazed brick taverns, chips in newspaper, and chilly black-out-curtained bedsits.Instead this is a place of ‘…string bags, trembling old men, tramps reading newspapers through magnifying glasses,’ all eyes on Katherine’s legs as she stands on a table to fit a new lightbulb. It was an autumn read for me, but there was enough of a nip in the air to make it feel like a timely reminder of things to come.

While we’re never explicitly told where Katherine is from, and what might have happened to her family, there are suggestions that she has suffered some trauma. There is no reason to think that there is more "truth" in diminished things than there is in inflated things: for the poet expresses his interior landscape primarily. Nevertheless, the candles had to be lit, and the ice in the jugs smashed, and the milk unfrozen; the men had to be given their breakfasts and got off to work into the yards.There is tennis, river punting and trips around Oxfordshire, and Katherine enjoys her quiet little holiday, which will be over far too soon. But the show is a cover for a very secret mission, and the girls' lives are soon filled with mystery and adventure.