Books
by Jonathan Tulloch
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Larkinland |
The tale of a new Librarian in Hull, living in a 1950's boarding house, his love life - if you can call it that - and his first success as a published poet. With an amorous landlady, struggling commercial travellers, incompetent policemen, the limitations of provincial life and frustrated lust, it is frequently very funny but undershot, like his poetry, with that layer of sadness. A highly entertaining literary read but without any literary pretentiousness. Delightful for Larkin fans and may get him a new reader or two.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 96 Spring 2020) |
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