Elizabeth
Bowen,
distinguished, celebrated, gifted, is a novelist perhaps now out of fashion? I
started to read
‘Eva
Trout’ [published in 1969] and found the style
and punctuation, almost archaic, but I was drawn into a remarkably crafted story
with characters emerging and revealing themselves as the story unravels,
culminating in a party on a platform at Victoria Station to wish newly-weds well
before they depart on a luxury train – how times have changed!
There is an excellent account of her
life ‘Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer’
by the
renowned and acclaimed Victoria
Glendinning, also
the biographer of ‘Trollope’—great—‘Rebecca West: A
Life’ and
‘Leonard
Woolf’, etc.
No-one does it better!
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