Description
Katherine Lind, a young library assistant living in an unnamed English town during the Second World War, moves through a single winter day haunted by memories of an earlier summer and a relationship that shaped her hopes and disappointments. As the novel shifts between wartime uncertainty and the brightness of the past, it explores love, longing, exile, and the tension between private desire and social expectation. Marked by compassionate precision and distinctive, lyrical prose, this finely observed novel captures the emotional distance between what people dream of and the lives they are ultimately asked to live.
Available Editions
paperback
Overlook TP
Published Nov 15, 1985
248 pages
ISBN: 9780879512170
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Details
First Published
1947
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin.