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Trouble at Willow Gables and Other Fition 1943-1953 - Philip Larkin

Larkin wrote Trouble at Willow Gables when he was 18-19, and at Oxford University - He had a liking for boarding-school stories - for example -Dorothy Vicary's Niece of the Headmistress, - Nancy Breary's Two Thrilling Terms - The plot concerns the effort to fund the Gymnasium Club, - with diversions of quarrels, catfights -

Critic Christopher Hart: - "glimpses of aching adolescent longing [show] through the bad writing" -