{"product_id":"philip-larkin-letters-to-monica-by-philip-larkin-9780571239108","title":"Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica\u003c\/em\u003e captures the unique relationship between Philip Larkin and Monica Jones, who met at University College Leicester in the autumn of 1946. At the time, they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she, an English lecturer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1950, Larkin moved to Belfast and later to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester. Despite the distance, she became his correspondent, lover, and closest confidante during a relationship that spanned over forty years, ending only with Larkin's death in 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable unpublished correspondence was discovered only after Monica Jones's death in 2001. It consists of nearly two thousand letters, postcards, and telegrams, chronicling—day by day, sometimes hour by hour—every facet of Larkin's life and the complexities of their relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471337144556,"sku":"9780571239108","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571239108-philip-larkin-letters-to-monica.jpg?v=1775240437","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/philip-larkin-letters-to-monica-by-philip-larkin-9780571239108","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}