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The Little Girls

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099287780

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 216g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Little Girls

In 1914 they had been eleven years old; three little girls at St Agatha's, a day school on the South Coast. Fifty years later, Dinah, beautiful as ever, advertises in the national newspapers to find the other two – Clare, now established with a successful business, and Sheila, a married woman, glossy, chic and correct. Can friendship can be taken up where it was left off? What are the revelations - and the dangers - in summoning up childhood?

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099287780

  • Length: 256  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 216g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • The Little Girls is intense and the language has bite

    The Times

  • There is that recurring shiver of delight...for this story is poetic in its awareness, its stimulus, its beauty of writing; and as full of clues, hints and half-revealed secrets as any thriller

    Scotsman

  • Elizabeth Bowen's mastery of the shape and form and talk of the world around her combines with her miraculous psychological insight to give us moments of sudden vision

    Angus Wilson

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About the Author

Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and landowner. She travelled a great deal, dividing most of her time between London and Bowen's Court, the family house in County Cork which she inherited. Her first book, a collection of short stories, Encounters, was published in 1923. The Hotel (1927) was her first novel. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. She died in 1973.

Elizabeth Bowen

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