The Shadowy Third
Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen – Winner of the RSL Christopher Bland Prize
$24.49
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2022
Summary
Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author’s grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair.
For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming’s On Chapel Sands, Daniel Mendelsohn’s An Odyssey and Francesca Wade’s Square Haunting.
A death in the family delivers Julia Parry a box of letters. Dusty with age, they reveal a secret love affair between the celebrated novelist Elizabeth Bowen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780715654491 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0715654497 |
| Author: | Julia Parry |
| Publisher: | Duckworth Books |
| Imprint: | Duckworth |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 344g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
‘It’s very epistolary and very beautiful, particularly with Bowen’s letters which are astonishingly beautiful, complex and intense. It’s like reading one of Elizabeth Bowen’s great novels’ RSL Christopher Bland Prize
‘A fascinating and moving portrait of love, loyalty and infidelity’ Sarah Waters
‘Marvellous, gently elegiac, beautifully written, and fascinating’ John Banville, New York Review of Books
‘Bowen fans will be in her debt’ Peter J. Conradi
‘As literary discoveries go, it’s a big one’ Sunday Times
‘An essay of rare sensitivity and intelligent reflection’ Telegraph
‘Fascinating and poetic’ Irish Times
‘A judicious moment-by-moment account of these complicated characters’ Spectator
About The Author
Julia Parry
Julia Parry was brought up in West Africa and educated at St Andrews and Oxford. She teaches English literature and has worked as a writer and photographer for a variety of publications and charitable organisations. She splits her time between London and Madrid. The Shadowy Third is her first book.
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