Jill

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>