Elizabeth Bowen

The Death of the Heart

During the 1920s, in an Ireland torn by revolution, an upper-class family struggles to ignore the violence that threatens its stability

The Last September

As a young boy waits in Paris for the mother he has never met, the circumstances surrounding his birth are revealed in the story of a brief and passionate love affair between a rich English girl and a Jewish banker. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The House in Paris

In London, at the height of the German bombing during World War II, Stella Rodney finds her world turned upside down when she discovers that her lover, Robert, is suspected of selling secrets to the enemy and that his enigmatic pursuer, Harrison, will exchange his silence for Stella herself. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

The Heat of the Day

Eva Trout has a capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble and for spreading trouble around her. This book was the author's last completed novel, first published in 1968.

Eva Trout

A young woman finds a collection of mysterious love letters in the attic of an old Irish country house and becomes obsessed with the young man, who, years before, had written them to her mother. Reprint.

A World of Love

In 1920s London, Cecilia Summers, a recent widow, and her sister-in-law, Emmeline, face difficulties in their relationships with, respectively, the kind, but unemotional Julian Tower, and Mark Linkwater, who dictates the terms of his love affair. Reprint.

To the North

English vacationers enjoy their holiday on the Italian Riviera gossiping and flirting among themselves, and intrigued by the mystery surrounding Sydney Warren

The Hotel

Friends and Relations (Penguin Modern Classics)

After nearly fifty years after the event that changed their lives, an elderly woman seeks out two former school friends and brings them to task for a childhood prank. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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