Manitoba while additionally in the top 3 women's national champions, as well as multiple world champions in the sport. The province also hosts the world's largest curling tournament in the MCA Bonspiel. The province is regular host to Grand Slam events which feature as the largest cash events in the sport such as the annual Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic as well as other rotating events. Though not as prominent as hockey and curling, long track speed skating also features as a notable and top winter sport in Manitoba. The province has produced some of the world's best female speed skaters
A Girl in Winter stated that he had originally intended to write further novels, but he published no more fiction after "A Girl in Winter", possibly because of a shortage of material on which to draw for inspiration. John Osborne called it "the most underestimated work in the Larkin canon" and "a harbinger of greatness". The book was adapted for radio and broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2013, along with an adaptation of Larkin's first novel, "Jill". A Girl in Winter A Girl in Winter is a novel by Philip Larkin, first published in 1947 by Faber and Faber. It was published in