Shortly after sixteen-year-old Portia comes to stay with her cool, elegant relations in their house in Windsor Terrace, she meets Eddie, an attractive young philanderer, and falls in love. Passion, misunderstanding, the emotional atropy of the grown-ups and the poignancy of innocence betrayed are threded through with Elizabeth Bowen's sublime sense of comedy and her ironic, scrupulous gift for divining human emotions.
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ISBN: 9780385720175
Physical Description:418 pages ; 20 cm.print
Publisher:New York : Anchor Books , c2000, c1938.
General Note: Top 100 novelFirst published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, 1938.