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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 .<br><br>'Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.' <b>Joyce Carol Oates</b><br>'Remarkable . A book about innocence.' <b>Simon Garfield</b><br>'A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.' <b>Andrew Motion</b>
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