A novelist of love and loss: handsome new editions of five Elizabeth Bowen novels spur our reviewer to reflect on the life and work of one of our greatest writers. (On Our Bookshelf).(Ireland's delight)

Victoria | March 1, 2003| | Copyright

THE FIRST NOVEL I READ BY ELIZABETH Bowen was The Little Girls. I'd been attracted by its title, not so far from being a little girl myself, at the book-sale table in the seaside village where my family went in the summer. I paid the price--a quarter--and read it immediately, straight through. I had no way of knowing that the novel is regarded as Bowen's least successful and most obscure book. I loved it.

The story involves three middle-aged women, long ago at school together, and the attempt of one of them, Dinah, to rebuild the bonds of their vanished triumvirate. ...

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