The shadowy third : love, letters, and Elizabeth Bowen
Parry, Julia2021
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A sudden death in the family delivers Julia a box of love letters. Dusty with age, they tell the story of an illicit affair between the brilliant twentieth-century novelist, Elizabeth Bowen, and a young academic called Humphry House - Julia's grandfather. Using fascinating unpublished correspondence, 'The Shadowy Third' exposes the affair and its impact by following the overlapping lives of three very different characters through some of the most dramatic decades of the twentieth century; from the rarefied air of Oxford in the 1930s, to the Anglo-Irish Big House, to the last days of Empire in India and on into the Second World War. The story is spiced with social history and a celebrated supporting cast that includes Isaiah Berlin and Virginia Woolf.
Main title:
The shadowy third : love, letters, and Elizabeth Bowen / Julia Parry.
Author:
Parry, Julia, author
Imprint:
London : Duckworth, 2021.
Collation:
386 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780715653579 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
280993
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