The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.In 1920, at their country home in Co...

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 ...

I do believe it to be both the best of Elizabeth Bowen's novels, and a very good novel by any critical standards....'The House in Paris' is a novel about sex, time, and the discovery of identity....She writes, for all her elegance, wi...

Thomas and Anna Quayne have a long, childless, emotionally sterile marriage. When Thomas's teenage half-sister, Portia, comes to stay with them, she disrupts everything by falling in love with an irresponsible young man who rejects he...

In 1914, three eleven-year-old girls buried a box in a thicket on the coast of England, shortly before World War I sent their lives on divergent paths. Nearly fifty years later, a series of mysteriously-worded classified ads brings th...