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inspiredbygrass 's review for:
The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
This is a remarkable book . Written in 1938 on the verge of the second world war we are plunged into the middle of a story centered around a displaced teenager , innocent and friendless who fetched up at the home if her half brother and his wife in London .
This abrupt start sets the tone of the novel which forensically exposes the brittle emotional undercurrents if respectable well to do life in London where the adults hide behind a veneer of witty indifference and callous politeness . Portia , the teenager , is the product of an affair and her disgraced parents were banished from society and England to live a rootless existence in Europe . Her half brother is
This abrupt start sets the tone of the novel which forensically exposes the brittle emotional undercurrents if respectable well to do life in London where the adults hide behind a veneer of witty indifference and callous politeness . Portia , the teenager , is the product of an affair and her disgraced parents were banished from society and England to live a rootless existence in Europe . Her half brother is