Just love the front cover!! hoping to finish this on my train journey from Birmingham and pop it in a suitable place...

Well this was a bit of a downer...I really wanted to like Katherine..she was alone and friendless but so prickly was she, I found the bleakness fitting. Robin is a fop and an idiot and her relationship with him seems vapid. This seems all a bit negative, but it isn't..it just fits the period..sitting around, waiting for just something to just happen. It's a very clever book but also invokes sadness which belied the novelty of the gorgeous book cover

Happier travels!!

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Received in the post from Jules5 this morning as a RABCK along with another book (Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris). Thanks very much-you are very kind. Thanks also for the interesting postcard from India. I haven't read anything by this author although I've heard of him so will look forward to reading it.

Review:- "I found Philip Larkin to be a very "wordy" writer, a little reminiscent of Thomas Hardy at times. I wasn't always sure what was going on within the story but I still had to keep on reading, The book didn't have a very satisfactory conclusion for me and I was left guessing about what happened in the middle."

I'm reserving the book for Snoopy56 as I'll be interested to see what she makes of it.

This book was given to my friend Snoopy56 when we met for a catchup today.

To the finder:-
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I already have books travelling in many countries around the world-a list can be found on my bookcrossing profile.

When re-releasing this book please be aware that airports are not a good place to leave books unless they have a specific book exchange shelf or area, due to security problems, so they may well just be disposed of. Also charity shops may well discard books that have been labelled in any way and they mostly chose only the books in the very best condition
to place on their shelves and discard the rest-so another bad release option.

Like Daffodil-2, I found this book very wordy and self indulgent at times. Larkin was only in his early 20s when he wrote it but presumably he was already working as a librarian since the first part of the book takes place in a library where the main character, Katherine, is working. The story then flashes back to a period just before WWII when Katherine, a 16 year old German schoolgirl, travels to England by herself ( I did find this a bit implausible) to spend the summer with her penfriend, Robin, and his family.
I did find the whole book a bit tedious at times and I’m not surprised that the author is better known for his poetry than his novels.

On a window ledge in the bar.