a people s tragedy
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attraction
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chick lit
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contemporary fiction
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family dynamics
gothic
historical romance
literary fiction
marriage
mental health
modern fiction
predatory thinking
relationships
the death of the heart
the heat of the day
the hotel
the last september
the second marriage
upended life
vulnerability
Product details
- ISBN 9780099287766
- Weight: 202g
- Dimensions: 131 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 1999
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Cecilia, capricious and unable to love, inches reluctantly towards a second marriage to the kind, passionless Julian Tower. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised to find the calm tenor of her life disturbed by her attraction to the predatory Mark Linkwater. Markie's appearance disrupts the lives of both women, but in the pain of misunderstanding, it is Emmeline who reveals her vulnerability in a violent and tragic act.
Reissued alongside The Hotel and The Little Girls
Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of shorts stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1926) was her first novel. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.
