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Elizabeth Bowen: The Death of the Hearth

It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around her
ISBN: 9780099276456
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Page: 317
Binding: Soft cover
Publication date: 1998
Format: Book
Publisher: VINTAGE BOOKS
Language: English

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It is London in the late 1930s, and into a coterie of rather grand early-middle-aged people the sixteen-year-old orphan Portia is plunged beyond her depth. Disconcertingly vulnerable, Portia is manifestly trying to understand what is going on around herand looking for something that is not there. Evident victim, she is also an inadvertent victimiser - her impossible lovingness and austere trust being too much for her admirer Eddie, who is himself defensive and uncomfortable in this society which....

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