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Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me - Her Life and Long Loves (Paperback)
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Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me - Her Life and Long Loves (Paperback)
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'A brilliant biography - John Sutherland has brought Monica Jones
to life as she deserves.' Claire Tomalin 'Eye-opening... in this
account [Monica Jones] comes alive.' The Sunday Times Monica Jones
was Philip Larkin's partner for more than four decades, and was
arguably the most important woman in his life. She was cruelly
immortalised as Margaret Peel in Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim and
widely vilified for destroying Larkin's diaries and works in
progress after his death. She was opinionated and outspoken, widely
disliked by his friends and Philip himself was routinely unfaithful
to her. But Monica Jones was also a brilliant academic and an
inspiring teacher in her own right. She wrote more than 2,000
letters to Larkin, and he in turn poured out his heart to her. In
this revealing biography John Sutherland explores the question: who
was the real Monica? The calm and collected friend and teacher? The
witty conversationalist and inspirational lecturer? Or the private
Monica, writing desperate, sometimes furious, occasionally
libellous, drunken letters to the only man, to the absent man, whom
she could love? Was Monica's life - one of total sacrifice to a
great poet - worthwhile? Through his careful reading of Monica's
never-before-seen letters, and his own recollections, John
Sutherland shows us a new side to Larkin's story, and allows Monica
to finally step out from behind the poet's shadow.
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