A Girl in Winter (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Larkin
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Sometime in the mid-1930’s and early 1940’s
- Setting: A provincial town in England and a village in south Oxfordshire, England
- Principal Characters: Katherine Lind, Robin Fennel, Jane Fennel, Lancelot Anstey, Miss Green
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Nature, 1940’s, World War II, Villages, Friendship, 1930’s, Libraries or librarians, England or English people, Women’s issues, Truthfulness and falsehood, Loneliness, Refugees, Isolation, Winter
- Locales: England
The Novel
A Girl in Winter is divided into three parts. The main action, in parts 1 and 3, takes place on a winter Saturday in the life of Katherine Lind, a twenty-two-year-old wartime refugee from an unnamed European country. The second part is a flashback to a three-week summer holiday which Katherine had taken in England six years previously.
Katherine, from whose point of view the story is told, has been in wartime England for nearly two years and has secured a routine job in a public library. The work is far below what her intelligence and education merit,...
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