Jill

A young man from Northern England struggles to find a sense of belonging at Oxford University during WWII in this "brilliant" novel by a literary icon (The Times).

John, who's never traveled far from his northern town of Huddleston, finds himself an undergraduate at Oxford University in 1940. A shy, insecure working-class young man, he is awed by his confident, careless roommate and yearns to fit in, clumsily pursuing a girl from a wealthy family. But as his efforts fail, he retreats furt...