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The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize

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By (author): Julia Parry

Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair.

For readers who were swept up in Laura Cummings On Chapel Sands, Daniel Mendelsohns An Odyssey and Francesca Wades Square Haunting.

A death in the family delivers Julia Parry a box of letters. Dusty with age, they reveal a secret love affair between the celebrated novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the academic Humphry House Julias grandfather.

So begins a life-changing quest to understand the affair, which had profound repercussions for Julias family, not least her grandmother, Madeline. Julia traces these three very different characters through 1930s Oxford and Ireland, Texas, Calcutta in the last days of Empire, and on into World War II. With a supporting cast that includes Isaiah Berlin and Virginia Woolf, The Shadowy Third opens up a world with complex attitudes to love and sex, duty and ambition, and to writing itself.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: Duckworth Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780715654491

About Julia Parry

Julia Parry was brought up in West Africa and educated at St Andrews and Oxford. She teaches English literature and has worked as a writer and photographer for a variety of publications and charitable organisations. She splits her time between London and Madrid. The Shadowy Third is her first book. For more information visit: www.juliaparry.co.uk

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