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1970 Booker Prize (shortlist)
1969 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Eva Trout has a capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble and for spreading trouble around her. This book was the author's last completed novel, first published in 1968.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Miss Bowen is magnificent when she writes about conspiracy, duplicity and ambiguity, and her achievement is extremely impressive." - Margaret Drabble
"Elizabeth Bowen is the great chronicler of the Second World War, of what it is like to be bombed and evacuated and rationed, and of how these outer events affected the individual human heart." - Angus Wilson
"Elizabeth Bowen is the great chronicler of the Second World War, of what it is like to be bombed and evacuated and rationed, and of how these outer events affected the individual human heart." - Angus Wilson
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