The Death of the Heart.

BOWEN, Elizabeth.

Item Number: 119909

London: Victor Gollancz, 1938.

First edition of Bowen’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition.

Set in London during the interwar period, Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart tells the story of Portia Quayne, a sixteen-year-old orphan who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of her sister-in-law. The novel has been named as one of the 100 best modern novels, both by Time and the Modern Library and was adapted into a 1986 TV serial, starring Patricia Hodge and Miranda Richardson.