by Elizabeth Bowen
bookshelves: radio-4, autumn-2011, published-1949, fradio, wwii Read from October 29 to November 06, 2011 *Sunday Classic Serial.BBC blurbs - Adapted by Tristram Powell and Honor Borwick. Elizabeth Bowen's wartime novel of betrayal adapted from a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Part love story, part...
Introduction--The Heat of the Day
I think I did read this, but I can't remember. My copy has this cover, but it's a Borzoi book from Knopf. 1949, 2nd edition.
Sunday Classic Serial.BBC blurbs - Adapted by Tristram Powell and Honor Borwick. Elizabeth Bowen's wartime novel of betrayal adapted from a screenplay by Harold Pinter. Part love story, part spy thriller, in which the beautiful Stella's allegiances are tested. Stella discovers that her lover, Robert...
Unexpectedly good, great story, great characterisation and moving.
I haven't read anything by Bowen before, and I picked this up for two reasons. The first is that I read some criticism by A.S. Byattabout it, and the second, someone put it in the free book pile at work. (I love those piles).I'm not sure how I feel about this book. I can see why Byatt enjoyed it....
Wartime London, hints of espionage and with lots of references to spirits and ghosts, albeit most often in a metaphorical sense. Buildings are also very significant: Stella's flat (which she changes when her life changes), Wistaria Lodge (odd care home), Mount Morris (Irish inheritance), Holme Dene ...
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