Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Phillip Larkin novel World Gin Day and the

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Philip Larkin: Letters Home by Phillip Larkin novel World Gin Day and theLetters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his family. These correspondences help tell the story of how Larkin came to be the writer and the man he was: to his father Sydney, a 'conservative anarchist' and admirer of Hitler, who died relatively early in Larkin's life; to his timid, depressive mother Eva, who by contrast lived long, and whose final years were shadowed by