The Heat of the Day

Author(s): Elizabeth Bowen

Fiction

It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella herself. Caught between two men and unsure who she can trust, the flimsy structures of Stella's life begin to crumble.


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A tense thriller of suspicion, betrayal and espionage set in wartime London

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.

General Fields

  • : 9780099276463
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
  • : 0.241
  • : June 1998
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 20mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Elizabeth Bowen
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.912