Elizabeth Bowen
Praise for The Last September, The Death of the Heart
...she’s as good as anyone: better than Woolf, who’s enshrined at the heart of the canon. Bowen is more confidently passionate, without Woolf’s debilitating doubt; her apprehension is more acute; she’s funnier; the ...
Tessa Hadley
Bowen's works ‘show the awesome capabilities of the English language and the surprise and mystery of the human soul.
Anne Tyler
She startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility.
V.S Pritchett
...she’s as good as anyone: better than Woolf, who’s enshrined at the heart of the canon. Bowen is more confidently passionate, without Woolf’s debilitating doubt; her apprehension is more acute; she’s funnier; the ...
Tessa Hadley
Bowen's works ‘show the awesome capabilities of the English language and the surprise and mystery of the human soul.
Anne Tyler
She startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility.
V.S Pritchett
...she’s as good as anyone: better than Woolf, who’s enshrined at the heart of the canon. Bowen is more confidently passionate, without Woolf’s debilitating doubt; her apprehension is more acute; she’s funnier; the ...
Tessa Hadley
Bowen's works ‘show the awesome capabilities of the English language and the surprise and mystery of the human soul.
Anne Tyler
She startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility.
V.S Pritchett