The Heat of the Day

Name: The Heat of the Day
Author: Elizabeth Bowen

by Elizabeth Bowen

Novel set in wartime London exploring a woman's secrets and betrayals

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Elizabeth Bowen

Bowen was one of the most distinguished Anglo-Irish novelists of the twentieth century, whose fiction explores displacement, memory, and the vulnerability of social surfaces. The Heat of the Day is her masterpiece, set in wartime London.

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